First post, by boxpressed
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My daily driver is an HP Pavilion dv7t laptop from 2011. It's still fine for most tasks, but I'm noticing it is a little slower on certain webpages these days.
It has a 2nd gen Core i7-2720QM and 6GB RAM on Win 7.
I've gone to the Passmark site and compared its CPU Mark score (6100) with those of newer processors. To my surprise, the i7-2720QM has a higher score than some newer CPUs in sub-$1000 laptops (mine cost only $1000 in 2011).
I don't want to buy a new laptop that's only marginally faster than the one I already have. I know that other things factor into system speed besides the CPU. If I have to spend more than $1,500 to get a decidedly faster computer, I'll just stick with this one for another year or two.
My question is whether CPU speed and benchmarks like the Passmark score are decent indicators of system speed.