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What does it actually do?

I've read it caches for faster hard disk access and boot times and if it can handle it solely, doesn't have to access it at all therefore increasing battery life.

Anyone seen official information on this?

The turbo memory (what a hokey name, ugh), formerly known by the codename "Robson", is designed to reduce hard disk latency by working with Vista's SuperFetch and ReadyBoost technologies to cach disk data.

Here is an Intel article describing how it all works:
http://www.intel.com/technology/magazin ... n-1206.htm

Thank you very much for the link.

This looks like another promising new feature, however the article shows that it mainly focuses on Vista. Does not say anything about XP. Looks like XP users might not benefit from this?

Windows XP does not have built-in support for the flash memory cache. It might be possible to use it in some way -- maybe even as cache if someone writes a driver for it -- but it really is focused on Vista.

That's too bad. Well, it wouldn't work on the Napa platform anyway.