What is the best laptop configuration?

Video Ability

Common laptop abilities: Running Office applications etc

Another laptop ability is to run virtual machines (VMs) or platforms, using Oracle Virtualbox

For video ability and other common abilities you need: 8GB RAM Dual Boot: 450GB Windows 7/50GB Linux SSD 500 mb/s Read speed and 500 mb /s Write Speed (Kingston HyperX) Low end i3 class CPU such as the P6000 External monitor support for 2560x1600 screen resolution 1920x1200 or in a pinch, 1600x900 screen resolution Optionally USB3

The configuration maximizes your ability to exploit applications and devices of all platforms and increases your options.

laptop benchmarks are often very narrow. Often CPU benchmarks only focus on ability to process distributed applications such as SETI.