Don't insult someone if you yourself are a bit misinformed. The point of Intel's "Turbo Boost" technology is to increase performance on single-threaded and weakly-threaded applications by shutting down x number of processing cores and increasing the clock frequency of the remaining cores -- all while staying with the same TDP. Although the implementation is far better on the Clarksfield mobile chips than it is on Bloomfield/Core i7, you are not going to see 1000Mhz clock bumps when all four cores are running. The 3.2Ghz turbo boost will no doubt only be seen when one core is active, with two and three cores running significantly slower. Running on all four cores with a cool platform will probably net you no more than ~200mhz or so with Turbo boost turned on.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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Don't insult someone if you yourself are a bit misinformed. The point of Intel's "Turbo Boost" technology is to increase performance on single-threaded and weakly-threaded applications by shutting down x number of processing cores and increasing the clock frequency of the remaining cores -- all while staying with the same TDP. Although the implementation is far better on the Clarksfield mobile chips than it is on Bloomfield/Core i7, you are not going to see 1000Mhz clock bumps when all four cores are running. The 3.2Ghz turbo boost will no doubt only be seen when one core is active, with two and three cores running significantly slower. Running on all four cores with a cool platform will probably net you no more than ~200mhz or so with Turbo boost turned on.