Over at Crave UK, they have a review of the MSI Turbobook GX600, an utterly non-remarkable, garishly-blinged little laptop that seems both underpowered and overpriced, except... it's got a Turbo button, hearkening back to the good old days of the 486!
Anyhoo, back to the turbo button. MSI says pressing it will instantly overclock the Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 CPU by approximately 20 per cent, taking it from 2.4GHz to around 2.8GHz. It also says if you hit it while the laptop is booting, it'll decrease boot time from 1 minute or longer to around 40 seconds.
Over at Crave UK, they have a review of the MSI Turbobook GX600, an utterly non-remarkable, garishly-blinged little laptop that seems both underpowered and overpriced, except... it's got a Turbo button, hearkening back to the good old days of the 486!
Anyhoo, back to the turbo button. MSI says pressing it will instantly overclock the Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 CPU by approximately 20 per cent, taking it from 2.4GHz to around 2.8GHz. It also says if you hit it while the laptop is booting, it'll decrease boot time from 1 minute or longer to around 40 seconds.
We've only played with it for a short time, but with the turbo button enabled, it scored a very decent 6,070 in PCMark 2005. With the turbo button disabled, it scored 5,409. That's better than we expected, but why not just have it overclocked by default and get rid of the turbo button? When would you not want to go turbo?
The reason is because turbo buttons are cool, guys. They are like elevator door close buttons: even if a turbo button doesn't work (or may as well just always be left on), you somehow feel more in control of your computer's speed while wildly jabbing the button.
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