There's been a ton of performance improvements made to Unity for the past 6 months (mostly due to needing to work on things like Tablets). Here's an example of

There's been a ton of performance improvements made to Unity for the past 6 months (mostly due to needing to work on things like Tablets). Here's an example of the work from Feb: - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-February/036436.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-February... - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-r-reduced-power-ram https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-r-redu... For me the Dash is now finally fast/almost instant as opposed to 12.10. All these improvements will be in 13.04 (and the select safe ones will be backported to 12.04 over time).