This is how much faster Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9 is than Gen 5


Compile large Java project

for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do s=$(date +%s); mvn -o clean install &>> /tmp/log; echo $(( $(date +%s) - s )) seconds; done

X1 Gen 5

452 seconds
458 seconds
469 seconds
476 seconds
481 seconds

X1 Gen 9

308 seconds
293 seconds
328 seconds
307 seconds
302 seconds

Compile large Java project using 8 threads

for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do s=$(date +%s); mvn -o clean install -T 8 &>> /tmp/log; now=$(date +%s); echo $(( now - s )) seconds; done

X1 Gen 5

405 seconds
402 seconds
407 seconds
396 seconds
401 seconds

X1 Gen 9

257 seconds
265 seconds
310 seconds
280 seconds
280 seconds

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