Slow at loading images of movies

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Seems the only variable is the laptop? If you were running Linux (docker in particular) I'd tell you to spin up an instance on the desktop and compare, but that's a bit more involved with a bare metal install. I'd say the bottleneck appears to be the laptop, but I'm flummoxed as to where that bottleneck lies (e.g., processor, network I/O).