Sorry for the delay. I removed most of my ram, leaving 8 GB in the system and booted Ubuntu 12.10. I ran "time sudo apt-get update" and it completed in 17.106 seconds.
@Mark Vels it appears that I owe you one. You nailed it. The Ram size seems to impact the performance of the system. I am updating to Ubuntu 13.04 to see if the problem is corrected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1107150 Title: B75 Chipset I/O Problems To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1107150/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs