Turbo Boost and Hyperthreading

[christophermdia]

According to a post on the apple forum in which the user claims they spoke with a genius they said no turbo boost or hyperthreading enabled....

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3189358?tstart=0

 

[Hellhammer]

I bet the genius doesn't even know what Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading are...

 

[housecat]

spoke with tech today, the i7 has hyperthreading. she didn't know anything about turboboost

 

[Smurfed]

I bet the genius doesn't even know what Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading are...

This.

 

[Kyotoma]

I don't see why any of those processors wouldn't have HyperThreading and TurboBoost.

 

[OSMac]

I don't see why any of those processors wouldn't have HyperThreading and TurboBoost.

Why is it not being mentioned in the Apple specs or by any reviewers so far that I have read.
Seems strange not to promote a feature?

 

[MRU]

The benchmarks from Geekbench clearly prove hyper threading is enabled.

 

[Kyotoma]

Why is it not being mentioned in the Apple specs or by any reviewers so far that I have read.
Seems strange not to promote a feature?

Oh I agree that it's odd, but if you go on Intel's website and look up those processors, they all have HyperThreading and TurboBoost.

 

[theSeb]

Oh I agree that it's odd, but if you go on Intel's website and look up those processors, they all have HyperThreading and TurboBoost.

The question is not whether these CPUs have HT and TurboBoost. We know they do. The question is whether Apple has disabled them or not.

 

[OSMac]

Oh I agree that it's odd, but if you go on Intel's website and look up those processors, they all have HyperThreading and TurboBoost.

I agree, but where are the specific processors used being shown?

 

[vader_slri]

I agree, but where are the specific processors used being shown?

This is Apple. They rarely refer to processors by their exact model numbers. Instead, you have to infer. Confirmation will come shortly with more comprehensive reviews and teardowns.

 

[OSMac]

This is Apple. They rarely refer to processors by their exact model numbers. Instead, you have to infer. Confirmation will come shortly with more comprehensive reviews and teardowns.

I'd guess they have turbo active but it throttles with the heat generated under load?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

The benchmarks from Geekbench clearly prove hyper threading is enabled.

Can you provide a link to one of them, as I didn't find any via searching for "MacBook Air" in the Geekbench Result Browser?

 

[OSMac]

Anandtech is showing specific processors and features used :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4512/the-2011-macbook-air-specs-and-details

 

[MRU]

2011 MacBook Air 11" base score = 5000+




MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010)
Intel Core 2 Duo U9400 1.4 GHz (2 cores) scored = 2026



2011 model got 2.5x improvement




Base 13 & 11