CIV 5 turns take approximately 9 minutes

Hello all,
First time in this forum. I have enjoyed playing Civilization for a long time, although the last time I played it was on PS2, yes a long time. I also played it on PC but it was a long time ago.
I got two days ago CIV 5 on PC, I have a Sony VAIO VGN-NS150J/W 15.4-Inch Laptop (2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 Processor, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, and about 45 Gb of Harddrive free space.

One thing that I have noticed is that the turns take extremely long, I google this and people were complaining about 30-45 seconds even 2 minutes, but mine is taking a lot longer I think.
I started with a small map, 6 civilizations, I started playing Thursday evening around 7pm, turned it off around 10pm so I got 3 hours of play time, yesterday I played from around 7-9pm. In 5+ hours I have 33 turns, that is approximately 9 minutes per turn, is this normal?

What can I do to speed this up, I don’t remember this taking so long. Should I check in to my laptop to see if that is the problem or is my configuration on the game delaying something.

Any advice is much appreciated.

your laptop is slow

and I thought I was being a baby whining about 8 second turn lengths in mid game.

Indeed I was.

I bought a hex core Intel I7 980 just for this game, and at stock speed I still need to wait around 10s, maybe even more between turns. I don't like overclocking anymore because it makes my room too hot, and I want it to last as long as possible without dying.

Your processor is just way too slow. Not much you can do about it without buying new hardware.