It took me a while to realize that my new laptop is painfully slow because it is only using one core instead of two.
I'm running Mint 18.2 and my laptop is an HP Pavilion dv6000.
Running inxi -f on terminal reveals the following:
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CPU: Single core AMD Turion 64 Mobile MK-36 (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
speed/max: 1600/2000 MHz
CPU Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch apic clflush cmov
cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de eagerfpu extapic extd_apicid fpu fxsr
fxsr_opt lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx mmxext msr mtrr nopl nx pae pat pge
pni pse pse36 rdtscp rep_good sep sse sse2 svm syscall tsc vme
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