Lenovo: looks like a great price and very quick

Santilli

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Considering the i7's you buy, I can see that.

Still, it's Passmark score is huge: 6718.

Is it possible the other components in the laptop just can't get it data fast enough?

In theory, the 2670QM should be faster, according to passmark, then my i7 940. Still,
I don't think it's getting data at 500 MB/sec from two X-25M's, either.

Have you put an SSD in a Lenovo i7 laptop?
 

ddrueding

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Yup, that machine (a Lenovo T410) has a 200GB Vertex2 SE in it. But things that are not particularly disk bound (panorama stitching in Photoshop with 8GB of RAM) seem to take forever.
 

LunarMist

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Most stitching progrmas are quite disk limited. PTGUI creates 80GB of temp files when I work on a large pan for example.
 

CougTek

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In theory, the 2670QM should be faster, according to passmark, then my i7 940.
There's not much things except Passmark for which a desktop i7 940 overclocked at 3.11GHz won't be faster than a mobile i7 2670QM operating at stock frequency. Sandybridge CPUs are ~30% faster than the older Core isomething at similar frequency. 2.2GHz*1.3=2.86GHz (less than the 3.11GHz you run the 940 at). Plus, IIRC, the i7 2670QM is a 4 cores/4 threads CPU while the i7 940 is a 4 cores/8 threads CPU. Your desktop still is the fastest computer you have.
 
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