My netbook is aging and I want to make sure that, should it go out in a blaze of glory, I have a notebook in mind to replace it. Since Kabini's release I've been checking periodically for modern notebooks in the 11.6" - 13.3" range when I came across a 13.3", dual-core trinity laptop from samsung.
I was reading a review on notebookcheck.net when I noticed that a laptop with the same A6-4455M performed better on the single threaded Cinebench test. To my surprise, the author went on to say that Samsung disabled Turbo on both the Intel and AMD equipped 13.3" series 5 notebooks. I didn't think there would be any reason to do this. Surely if the laptop can run maxed out on all threads at the base clock it can Turbo when only 1 thread is maxed?
At any rate, I personally didn't know this practice was done. It could be that this is controlled by some power saving software, or that it's ingrained into the firmware but I wanted to let y'all know to double check if you're searching for a new laptop.