INTERNET SPEED RECORD
"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Researchers at a Stanford University-affiliated research center said on Friday they had found a way to send data across the Internet more than 3,500 times faster than the typical broadband connection." Link

My laptop is plenty fast for what I do, but frankly speeding up the packets of info coming at me by 3,500 probably won't make a whole lot of difference. It's kind of like racing down the arterial so you can be the first to wait at the traffic light. But maybe in a few years...