why laptop with centrino duo is slower then desktop with centrino duo ??

Question

iHi i purchased 2 computers last month. One is a toshiba laptop with intel centrino duo processor and other one is hp desktop with same processor. But to my surprise hp desktop is much faster then my toshiba laptop. Both have almost same RAM. Only diff is in brand name and HDD storage. But i dont think it wud make any diff at all in speed. So cud anybody tell me what’s wrong goin on in here. Thanks for ur help in advance

Answer 1

A desktop is normally faster than a laptop due to the size. Laptops are built in such a way that they have to compress every hardware to fit into a notebook size system, so evidentally, they will not work as well as a desktop...however, they are more expensive because of only one reason...they are portable.

Also HDD does contribute to how fast your computer runs. A computer with a smaller hard drive will be faster than a computer with a larger hard drive. The RAM needs to process information and data from the hard drive, so the larger the hard drive, the more work the RAM has to do to process information.

Answer 2

Could be HDD response times, chances are it's a combination of bus speed on the mainboard and architecture differences between desktop and laptop chips. I wouldn't assume anything is wrong. Incidentally, how are you benchmarking this? If you haven't run both systems through standardized benchmarking routines you may be blaming what turns out to be a software problem on hardware.