how many applications were running in each situation? I think free memory is the reason. My computer has 512mb of memory and it's always slow as crap and I'll never get under 30 seconds...
same laptop, with just firefox, with just that page
Probably overclocked heavily. Makes sense; spend tons of cash to make your computer fast enough to do a 9 second coconut run on a free game. The reward must be the bragging rights.
dont forget about the 8 core processors and 4TB of storage too!
or the dual (optical) superdrives!!
i like to go to the apple store online and build a best-you-can-get mac pro and imagine them shipping it to me. too bad it's over $15k... just for the tower! but 8 core processors? 4 independent drive bays for 4tb total? 32gb of ram? 2 superdrives? heh. lemme wipe the drool off my desk now....