I have been playing around with optimizing ubuntu on Miftik’s laptop today. I found the following information today and have tweaked/tuned. Now the laptop is booting faster and is generally more pleasant to use.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89491&highlight=ubuntu+tip https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Teardown http://www.xsol.se/index.php/2007/04/29/feisty-performance-fly-like-a-butterfly/ http://tvease.net/wiki/index.php?title=Tweak_ubuntu_for_speed