Rate my new laptop (arrives in 48 hours)

[lestatdark]

Baalzamon said:

Edit: So when I'm reading an article on wikipedia, it makes the whole entire thing make more sense.  It says it increases it in increments of 100 MHz, so you may be able to run 4 cores at a little more than 2.00 GHz, for instance.  It does still mention it is limited on power available as well as temperature, meaning you will still be limited depending on the # of cores turned on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Boost

It also says the full potential of these processors isn't yet fully efficient based on how the whole process works.

Regardless, it is an extremely quick proceser, and I'm sure you will love it.

Yeah, that it is. Frankly, I based my laptop purchase decision more around the CPU than the GPU. CPU can be a big bottleneck for performance, and not only in games.

I use a lot of CPU-intensive 3D molecular design programs that take advantage of multiple core/threads to compilate the molecular vectors. So far, this laptop does that in 63% less time than my previous laptop, which is a huge increase.