Why is Mint 12 acting slow for me?

[Sangero]

I have recently installed Linux Mint 12 and so far I have noticed it can be very slow. I will be using the update manager for example and I find that it takes an extremely long time to download packages. That isn't the only thing being slow, yesterday when I was trying to install drivers using the additional driver app it was taking a long time to download, it got to a 25% in a matter of hours, so I decide to restart because the system slowed down way too much, so it never got to finish. The web also can at times be very slow. Sometimes websites load very fast and at other times it can be somewhat slow. For example, I could decide to go to google.com and that page will load up in a matter of a few seconds. Though if I try to go to facebook or youtube it would be significantly slower to the point that even my windows 7 is loading faster than it.

It generally gets so slow I do have to restart it at times because of the loading time. I just downloaded Linux Mint 12 yesterday, so I am fairly new to everything if anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it.

I am using a laptop that has a 1st Gen. i5 processor 2.7ghz that turbo boosts up to 3.3ghz, Nvidia 420m, and 8gb ddr3 RAM.

[xenopeek]

Wired or wireless internet? If wireless, and you have the option, please retry any of those actions that slowed down before while being connected to the internet wired. It may be just that you have a flaky driver for your wireless chip.

Please also run the following on the terminal, and share the output here. This tells other forum members a bit more about your setup.

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inxi -Fxc 0

[Sangero]

Here are my system stats

System: Host ADA-XPS-L501X Kernel 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc 4.6.1)
Desktop Gnome (Gtk 2.24.6) Distro Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Machine: System Dell (portable) product XPS L501X version A03
Mobo Dell model 00CKNG version A03 Bios Dell version A03 date 10/15/2010
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5 CPU M 560 (-HT-MCP-) cache 3072 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips 10639.6
Clock Speeds: (1) 1199.00 MHz (2) 1199.00 MHz (3) 1199.00 MHz (4) 2667.00 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: nVidia Device 0df1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
X.Org 1.10.4 drivers intel unloaded: vesa,fbdev Resolution 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio driver HDA Intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 nVidia GF108 High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel bus-ID: 02:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: 1.0.24
Network: Card-1 Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port 5000 bus-ID: 09:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: f0:4d:a2:6c:02:43
Card-2 Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 driver iwlagn v: in-tree: bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 58:94:6b:f2:ea:7c
Drives: HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (0.6% used) 1: /dev/sda ST9750420AS 750.2GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 403G used: 4.0G (2%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 8.31GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info: Processes 145 Uptime 20 min Memory 819.2/7736.4MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.7.7