so what does it mean when it's down like that?

saves a lil' bit of power, but the main thing is that it doesn't generate as much heat. It's perfect for file-serving and torrenting...

oh i see. so what is this 1.6GHz processor? A macbook air?

Naw, a box I custom built as my file server. It has a Pentium Dual-core 1.6GHz (based on the Core processors, just slower with less cache.)