Hey rainclear, my apologies for my very late reply. I have been away due to my research commitments and my laboratory being burgled, but back now!

I had a look at the thread and you have gotten some good responses. My first question was whether the two machines are actually running the same project. If they are, then the reason for the mag discrepancy will just be the age of your architecture. A 7 year old CPU will have a slower clock, but more significantly it can complete far fewer FLOPs per clock cycle.

That being said, there is a way to get better mag out of your laptop due to it having 8 threads. The project WCG awards credit differently to all other projects, based only on the number of thread-hours you commit. The actual work done by each thread does not factor in. Therefore, you may want to move your laptop onto WCG.

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any more questions and I will try my best to answer (punctually). =)