Comment 27 for bug 930447

I thought I would add some additional context to the issue. In my day job, I work for a US company with near $8B in annual revenue. We probably still have hundreds of Thinkpads still in the field. While they may be close to end of life for us, they are likely to become beginning of life for others. Not everyone can afford to replace hardware that still has plenty of useful life. The main reason I switched to Ubuntu in the first place was to improve the performance (compared to WinXP Pro) on the same hardware. I have not been disappointed, until now. If one of the goals of 12.04 is to establish a long-term stable platform for large corporations to adopt Ubuntu, it would seem like a smart idea not to alienate those organizations with large numbers of Pentium M laptops still in the field.