It has a quadcore CPU with a faster clock rate than many laptops, Jacobs says.

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While the slightly faster clock speed may be a nice bragging right, at the end of the day Atom N470-based netbooks are still, well, netbooks.

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Acquired by Velocity Micro in 2007, Overdrive PC has always represented the pinnacle of desktop performance, pillared by Hyperclocking, a trademarked form of overclocking that yields faster clock speeds and unparalleled reliability at lower thermals than traditional methods.

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Iran's civil society clock may now be ticking faster than its nuclear clock.

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Melatonin is another popular way to help shift the body clock faster to a different time zone.

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Seeking out day light at certain times, and avoiding bright light at other times, are some of the main strategies researchers recommend for resetting the body clock faster.

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Reviewers agreed that its inclusion helped significantly improve single-threaded performance, to the point where the faster (in default clock speed) 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 was falling behind in benchmarks.

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And, of course, in sports where performance is measured by the clock, we can see that, intrinsically, humans are getting faster.

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Inside there's an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people )-made Pentium 4 processor, the clock speed of which hasn't yet been revealed--though HP says it will be faster than 2 gigahertz.

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