seems to is when the laptop has to use a lot of Windows virtual memory, as it 
does a lot of extra disk hashing that Linux wouldn't have to, Windows being 
the memory hog that it is.  

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There's a widow in sleepy Chester
  Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
  A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
  Who tells how the work was done.
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