Remember the turbo switch....

[drz01]

Well here is a laptop with a turbo switch...
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-msi-gx600-worlds-first-turbo-notebook#more-9964

 

[LordOfLA]

It does exactly the same as the old one did too....

 

[ElementalDragon]

yep. one computer at where my mom works still has the turbo button.

 

[rushm001]

Can you imagine that now, a button which slows your computer down which you press it! :s 😛

 

[ming]

Can you imagine that now, a button which slows your computer down which you press it! :s 😛

Yep, actually, I think it's the equivalent to unplugging a laptop from AC power and running on battery. The unit will lower power consumption by running at a lower FSB and on certain laptops, turn down the backlight on the LCD (like my Sony PIII laptop.) 🙂

 

[ElementalDragon]

it's also kinda similar to Cool N' Quiet..... minus the button on the case to press.

 

[LeeJend]

Drat dragon beat me to it. Cool and quiet is just an automatic turbo switch.

Of course as the old farts know the turbo switch was for compatibility for the early DOS games which were timed based on cpu clock speed, not system clock speed. WHee pac man on a 16mhz AT instead of an 8 mhz pc took some helacious fast reflexes. 😉

 

[ElementalDragon]

you think that's bad...... try Scorched Earth on a processor in the couple hundred Mhz or 1Ghz range. THAT is some wicked stuff. take like 10 minutes just to adjust your angle and power. or just set it to all computer players and watch the carnage end in seconds.

 

[ray_gillespie]

I remember Wipeout 2097 never had any way of limiting the framerate - on my old 500Mhz PIII with a Geforce 2 GTS the framerate went through the roof in the hundreds! Totally unplayable of course... 🙂