Re:CPU Speed Throttling? (Score 1)

Yeah, but if we did that the fancy shmancy Word Processors would slow to a halt, the spreadsheets would take a minute to compute values, the sources would take hours to compile, the ... etc...

I use every MHz they clock these puppies up to, and I like this new function because it will accomplish a lot, believe it or not.

Power consumption is reduced a great deal by shifting down the voltage, and a lot of battery life is added by the power down.

Having worked quite a bit with these new FC-PGA pIII's, I can tell you that from 400-600MHz the productivity scales very well.