windows movie maker is very cpu intensive

[Turtle The Cat]

80% cpu usage with my laptop
i7 2670qm

my sister have a i5 3570k i built the gaming pc for her because she doesnt know anything about gaming pcs but she bought me my gaming pc
building a gaming pc at 15 yr old is impressive
lets get back to the topic
i have a i7 4770k my sister have a i5 3570k

i7 4770k - 7% cpu usage
i5 3570k - 12% cpu usage

 

[Turtle The Cat]

7% for the best cpu in the world for windows movie maker haha
i expected 7% from sony vegas

 

[dustinhunt78]

80% cpu usage with my laptop
i7 2670qm

my sister have a i5 3570k i built the gaming pc for her because she doesnt know anything about gaming pcs but she bought me my gaming pc
building a gaming pc at 15 yr old is impressive
lets get back to the topic
i have a i7 4770k my sister have a i5 3570k

i7 4770k - 7% cpu usage
i5 3570k - 12% cpu usage

This is like comparing apples to oranges. It's like trying to compare a Ferrari to a Volkswagon. The 4770k is king of the walk, and the 3570k isn't far behind. Both are considered "very high-end" CPU's. And while the i7 2670qm isn't a low-end CPU by any stretch of the imagination (probably wasn't fair to compare it to a Volkswagon, but given what it's compared against, it just doesn't stack up), the desktop CPU's are going to crush it. As a rule of thumb, a desktop will always have the performance edge on a laptop. The main reason is simple: Available space. As you gain performance, you gain heat. Heat is the eternal enemy of a CPU. In a laptop, everything is crammed into a very small space, thus it is much harder to dissipate the heat that is generated from a power-hungry high performance CPU. Unless some type of completely new and radical cooling solution is found, the laptop will never have the performance of a desktop. Laptops have their place, but a true high-performance application just isn't one of them.