Comments on: Intel officially launches Core i7, pricing

Chipmaker officially debuts its next-generation processor at an event in San Francisco.

[Galaxy5]

Re: the Turbo Boost feature -

Is there a nifty button and light on the front of the computer to indicate that pressurized air is being fed to the processor's internal combustion unit?

File Turbo Boost under Misnamed Marketing Flops.

[ppgreat]

Turbo boost. KITT. Speed Racer. Your laptop?

[3rdalbum]

When I hear "turbo boost" I think of the little button on the joysticks of the vipers in the original Battlestar Galactica :-) But the feature is good because it goes some way to negating the frustrating experience of using a single-threaded program and thinking "I've got three cores sitting idle!". At least now, they're sitting idle so that the core in use can go faster.

I wrote a video encoding frontend that runs as many instance of ffmpeg (video encoding backend) as you have cores, so if you're encoding multiple video files you won't have a core sitting idle. Most encoding programs still do things one-at-a-time. I can't wait to try my program on a Core i7 processor! It would be so many shades of awesome!

[powel212]

40% increase of video processing is just what I'm looking for. But I have one area I am a little unclear about. I am often reading that with solid state drives I will lower my chance of data loss. But I have more often lost data to a solid state flash drive than I have to a standard Hard drive. Usually with a Hard drive you lose chunks of data but not everything. But with Solid state. a little static electricity can cause total data loss. Tell me if I'm wrong but this has been me own personal experience.
Powel

[Lerianis]

A little static electricity? That shouldn't wipe out your flash drive, unless it gets a HUGE jolt right on the USB connector (I am assuming you are talking about that kind of Flash drive).

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