System76 Bonobo Professional
While most laptops will not be used for serving up web pages, when it came to benchmarking Apache the best performance was found with the ThinkPad T61 and its Core 2 Duo T9300 processor. In this test the dual-core Penryn processor clocked at 2.50GHz outperformed the quad-core found in the System76 notebook that was clocked at 2.00GHz.
The Lenovo T61 also outperformed the System76 Bonobo Professional at MP3 encoding using LAME, by quite a significant margin.
Likewise, the T61 had a superior video encoding time.