fed17 Intel Core i5-2430M testing with a HP 166F v09.36 and Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2) on Fedora 17 via the Phoronix Test Suite. same old hp: Processor: Intel Core i5-2430M @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 166F v09.36, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54755, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2) (1200MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E + Atheros AR9285 Wireless OS: Fedora 17, Kernel: 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.0, Display Driver: intel 2.19.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better same old hp . 9226.31 |======================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better same old hp . 133.48 |========================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better same old hp . 11708.98 |======================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better same old hp . 12353.42 |======================================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better same old hp . 1964 |===========================================================