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iTunes conversion feels like watching paint dry

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by robs10, Jul 28, 2014.

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  1. robs10

    robs10 Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a Latitude E6530, and converting CDs in iTunes seems soooo much slower than my Vostro 460 desktop. Is the E6530 just slow at conversion? It starts out at 3.5x and finishes somewhere over 15x. My Vostro runs around twice as fast. Is it a setting somewhere, or the speed of the DVD drive?
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Objectively how much slower is the laptop? 2 times? 3 times? What are the specs on both machines? My guess is that you're bottlenecked by optical drive speed, but you should also look to see if you're maxing out the CPU.
     
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    The desktop is a little faster...i5 2400 3.1GHz, with 10GB RAM, whereas the Latitude is an i7 3740 2.47 GHz, with 8GB RAM. Don't know what the specs are on the DVD drives, but aren't most newish ones similar spec?
     
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