1 minute 8 seconds for 1m places, with 100% processor usage.
I am using an AMD turion processer at 2 ghz (I did have this window open at the same time, but that should make little difference)

I lost a second by having no other windows open.

54 seconds

Packard Bell with Intel pentium M processor (1.4 GHz) (480MB RAM)

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I want to try the other laptop we have but it would take too long... it is exactly the same model as this laptop and exactly the same age (3 years now) but I seem to have taken better care of mine than my sister has of the other... it takes about 5 minutes to go from pressing power until manageing to open an IE window.

Thats nearly 20% faster than me with the same CPU. Curious.

Why is mine so slow?

^^What AV program do you have? I also depends on other procceses that are running.

 Seems to depend quite a lot on what programs are running in the background, took over a minute when I tried it before I thought to close steam. And my speed comes from drinking powerthirst

 What do you mean by AV?  I had no other windows open, though there were many background processes, but not many large ones

Wow that's fast! What CPU do you have?

How many places? You can't get an exact value of pi as it is never ending.

Yes, there is. Google 'superpi', you may be able to find it.

I can't remember exactly where it is though. My computer does do it about 10-15 seconds faster (for 2 million digits) in linux than in windows though