Is my i7 really not faster?

I just bought an iMac 27" i7 and noticed, that it's not seemingly faster than my 13" MacBook Pro.
When doing xBench tests, the i7 only "pulls" a 169 score and when doing compression in Final Cut Compressor, it's like the cores only gets 20% maxed out (according to iStat Menu).
My MacBook Air (ssd model) is 232 in xBench and another 27" (not i7, though) is 235 in xBench.
Do I need to do anything, to get better performance or is there anything else I should know?
Right now, I'm kind of dissapointed with the performance, which is the last thing I should be with an i7, right? I really don't understand why it's not utilizing 100% of the "horsepower".
I installed extra 4 gb ram in the iMac - can this be the root of a problem?

You're expecting the wrong kind of speed. I've explained this several times already, so you can find one of those posts for more detail.
The basic idea is that the i7 has more parallel processing power. It can process 4X the data the MBP can. Any given task may be slower than the MBP, but there's just no way the MBP could hope to keep up under load. Not only that, but the overall system responsiveness will stay much more consistent with the i7. So even if you're rendering some large project with FCP, you could still browse the web, check your email, and other things without your system feeling a bit sluggish.
I have a C2D laptop and an i7 desktop, and I can definitely notice the difference when I start trying to do some of my usual desktop things on my laptop. The laptop starts to buckle under the load my desktop handles without breaking a sweat.

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S.-

we're all regular users here and we're trying to help...maybe if your choice of words would have been "is there a way to make a clipping mask in Illustrator faster than the way Indesing does it?" then the answer would have been "no", end of story...
I don't understand your quest for speed, usually working with illustrator is not associated with churning out the most artwork per minute as humanly possible, but who knows, you might have a legitimate reason for shaving off micro seconds of an operation, otherwise you wouldn't be asking.
but now that we know what you need, being, a quick way to apply a clipping mask and a quick way to modify such clipping mask, I think this is the best Illustrator can offer, based on what others have said above
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man, if that's not fast enough for you, then, are you racing with your coworkers? maybe try bugging Adobe with a feature request pronto.

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Does Lion really not work with Microsoft Office?

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"Reinhard Klemm" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I appreciate your response and, at the same time, I am somewhat
surprised about it. Here are the reasons for my surprise:
1. Your response indicates that WebLogic uses RMI for
EJB local method calls, i.e., even if the client is on the same VM.
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WebSphere: 0.41 ms on the average
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Reinhard
"Maruthi Nuthikattu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
Can you post some numbers so that we can visualize the difference.
Please add the numbers with other J2EE appserver also.
Otherwise top of my head, the reason is:
Weblogic rmi is well optimized for the calls with in the same JVM andsame
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This could be the reason you are not seeing much difference.
..maruthi
"Reinhard Klemm" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I was curious how much faster calling business methods in
a stateless session EJB in WebLogic 7.0 would be through
a local interface than calling the same business methods
through a remote interface. I timed both ways of calling
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used the local interface (using ejb-local-ref, local-jndi-name,
local interfaces in source code). Does anybody (perhaps from
BEA) have an explanation for this? By the way, I ran the
same experiment with other J2EE application servers such
as IBM's WebSphere 5 (Beta) and there was a tremendous
performance difference between local and remote interface
usage.
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Reinhard

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