<p>Hey all,</p>

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<p>Soon I will buy a new computer, a laptop (Macbook Pro) to be precise. I have to: I travel a lot but would like to keep FSX with me for a multitude of reasons, and I prefer Mac OS as my working platform. On this point I would prefer if there is no discussion... And yes, don't worry, I know FSX runs on Windows only. I will make it a dual-boot system, as I have done with my last two Macs also; works fine.</p>

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<p>Now to my question. I was wondering whether The i7 quad's Turboboost feature has any positive effect for running FSX? The computer I have in mind has a standard speed of 2,7gHz, but turboboost up to 3,7gHz. Of course, for as far as I understand, it will only do this on one of the four physical cores, so I was wondering if this will help FSX, or whether it won't make much of a difference?</p>

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<p>And now that I'm typing anyway, I might as well ask a second question. No way that the internal HD will have enough HD space, so I was thinking of using an external HD using Apple's "thunderbolt" technology, which supposedly has transfer speeds up to 10Gbps. It seems this *should* be able to overcome the otherwise slow transfer rates you would get with standard USB connections. My goal is to install FSX and ALL addons on this hard drive. I'm also undicded yet whetehr this should be a 256/512GB SSD or a 1TB "normal" HD. Any opinions on that? Alternatively, would USB3.0 be good enough too? I'm asking simply because of the really big price difference...</p>

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Turbo Boost is not classed as overclocking. It's a feature where Intel will increase the clockspeeds up to a certain level when the CPU is not drawing too much power and is not running too hot. In one way could be seen as an automatic cautious overclocking.

 

It is certainly good for FSX. It doesn't do any harm, it just does good. The i7 3740QM that you talk about can turbo up to 3.5Ghz even when all 4 CPU cores are used as they will in FSX. So as long as the MacBook stays cool enough it should run FSX at that speed. That's 30% faster than the 'normal' 2.7 GHz you'll get if you for example put a heavy load on the integrated graphics at the same time. Thankfully FSX will run on the separate nVidia graphics.

Very useful, thanks!