Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: >There has been significant improvements with recent kernels. After >installing 2.6.37 - AFAIR - on my ThinkPad T42 which uses Ext4 I >actually thought I bought a new notebook. And there have been >improvements after that version as well. > >So it might be a good idea to install a backport kernel, once its >clear the hardware is working to its specifications. Have You tried 3.0.0 version?