Laptop under performing?

[jskoz]

I have a feeling I have faulty hardware or something of the sort. Others with my laptop get ~9000-10000 on benchmark tests while i get around 3500.

Specs:
Processor: AMD A8-3500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (4cpu) 1.5 GHz

Memory: 6144MB RAM
RAM: 6gb(5.4 usable)

windows 7 64bit
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC.

 

[rdc85]

what test that u are using? are the spec is identical with the other one u compared?
(clock, ram, hdd, chipset, etc)