The point of Turbo Boost speed is that it's unsustainable, therefore you may only get it for short flashes of time. If it wasn't unsustainable, that would be th

The point of Turbo Boost speed is that it's unsustainable, therefore you may only get it for short flashes of time. If it wasn't unsustainable, that would be the real speed of the chip. But they can't make these chips at 3 Ghz, and also claim 10W of power consumption. By using Turbo Boost, they have their cake and eat it, too. They can do well in benchmarks thanks to Turbo-Boost, but also do well in power consumption tests, because most of the time the chip will not be running at Turbo Boost speed, and will be throttled to "normal speed" as soon as it passes its power consumption limit. So Intel is being misleading by using Turbo Boost speed as the normal speed.