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Re:Ask HN: Developer laptop under $1500? by crypto5 on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @01:50PM (#6091682)
> 6h on the slow servers or 6mins on the best one (which just has a better processor than the others).

60 times differences? What kind of CPUs do you have in slow and fast servers?

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Re:Ask HN: Developer laptop under $1500? by shrughes on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @04:15PM (#6092613)
Presumably it's parallelizable. Double the clockspeed, 16x the cores... that'll get you 32x improvement right there, but you've also got way more L3 cache, which might help considerably.
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Re:Ask HN: Developer laptop under $1500? by trin_ on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:11AM (#6095004)
plus much more ram, faster drives and the fact that newer cpus get more done even at comparable clockspeeds ... and there's your 60x
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