Oh, and it looks like the CPU clock speed gets turned up pretty much 
instantly when you start a compute-bound process, so unless Tom's Hardware 
was running performance tests on a laptop without setting it to "high 
performance" first, it looks like that wasn't why their tests showed it 
CPU-slower.  Why it would be, I don't know, except I had a bad combination 
of drivers that was making something in the audio system suck up like 7% CPU 
time, audio conflicting with disk drive RAID or something weird, but I'd 
think they'd have looked at the performance of an "idle" system and said 
"Gee, there's something odd there." Or at least have mentioned it, if they 
didn't take time to fix it first.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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