New T61, A question

[craigmontHunter]

I just got a new (to me) T61, and so far I am impressed - 5-6 hours of battery life, awesome performance, even in vista. I do have a question, the processor, a T7100@1.8ghz overclocks itself to 2.0ghz fairly regularly according to cpuz. I am just wondering if this is an old version of turbo boost, or is it just a fluke?

Any insight would be appreciated.
Thank You,
Jack

[dr_st]

an old version of turbo boost

Known as "Intel Dynamic Acceleration".
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... -cores-ida

[craigmontHunter]

Thank you - I had found an article about the Penryn processers having that, but the article said that the memorm did not, since they used it for comparisons.

It is funny how companies will hype-up old ideas in new products.

[Fakenjones]

Also,

Since you've moved on to Vista anyway, I highly recommend Windows 7.
In fact I think its analagous to what the SP1, SP2 and SP3 did for XP.
Without them you're losing out on way too much, in security, performance and features.

Enjoy the T61.

[craigmontHunter]

I would love to move to 7, but I am going to wait untill I get to university next year and pick up a cheap educational copy, since I do not have the money to buy a copy of win7pro, which I would like for features like remote desktop host. I tried 7 on this before vista, and it flew, but I don't have a license.

With 3gb of ram and sp2, vista does not have any of the problems that I had with it when I first tried it (which was when it first came out )