over the years, I accumulated few thinkpads, so here are some relative measurements between them
t42:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping : 6 microcode : 0x18 cpu MHz : 600.000 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe bts est tm2 bogomips : 1196.15 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management: t42:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1232 MB in 2.00 seconds = 616.23 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 100 MB in 3.02 seconds = 33.09 MB/sec