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What is the actual meaning of turbo boost?
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I'm buying a laptop for $849.99 and it purports that the i5-450m chip "turbo boosts" up to 2.66ghz, 4 threads, and 3m cache. Is this an idealized claim, or will it actually dramatically improve performance? Also, do I have to do something special to use turbo boost? Are there power/heat/battery lif…
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The CPU of this Dell model operates normally at 2.4Gh, and may Turbo boost up to the maximum of 2.66Ghz, which means an increase of 11% in CPU performance. While nice, this won't exactly turn the laptop into a super-computer, and shouldn't be a majo…
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