Need your advice regarding this machine for possible purchase

[jonathon]

A lot of that is down to the laptop itself and how good its cooling system is - poor cooling is a pretty common feature on slim laptops.

Also, it’s possible that the settings can be tweaked:

What are your kernel compile times?

Taking some of the hints from @nate I did a little tweaking with tlp, thermald and intel-undervolt setttings. I am sure there is still a lot of tuning I can do, as I tried to be a little conservative with the settings for my first few runs. Anyway, here is the comparison of numbers for my ASUS UX461UN with the i7-8550u. For the most part, I was able to reduce my times to a little under half or what I was seeing: real 11m41.908s --> 5m34.087s reduced to 47.6% of original time user 82m28.…