Seems to me there is a discrepancy about the lighting on the tabletop
compared with the illumination of those lamp shades.  The shades should
be more intensely lit along the line of sight with the camera and the
veil-like transparency isn't conducive to the dark shadowing which
appears caused by them (the unlit portions of tabletop).
I realize this is where ray tracing gets it's reputation, with a need to
mimic true lighting conditions, and that's not always easy (or
possible?).
I see you're using another light in the room, maybe going with a
shadowless one would be best.  Then you could get an ambience in the
room which appears to come from these two lamps.
That P133 actually seems to have done fairly well on the render-time.

Bob

"Eric Freeman" <eri### [at] datasynccom> wrote in message
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| No AA, but this still took 1.5 hours on my poor old P133 due to the
six area
| lights (three in each light bulb).  And I forgot to put in the
skeleton key
| that I made.

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