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I can see running Openbox on a laptop not so much for speed, as for screen real estate. I have a 12.1 inch screen, and I use Fluxbox because it can be set up to maximize applications under the tool bar (if you keep the tool bar on the top layer). I don't know that Openbox can be set up that way with something like pypanel. I've tried, but ended up with less real estate, not more. Openbox does seem snappier than Fluxbox, however. So it's a toss-up. On the other hand, Ubuntu is not a great choice for a less-than-powerful machine anyway. My laptop is a 1.6 Ghz Pentium M with the Intel i810 video, and I can definitely see a difference between Fluxbox on Ubuntu and Fluxbox on Zenwalk, which is what normally use (I'm testing Arch on there at the moment).

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