I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

Bill Freeman ke1g.nh at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 08:36:02 EDT 2012


On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Any bad experiences with the i7 CPU?
>
>  You're looking at the wrong part.  CPUs are commodities these days.
> Core logic chipset, video chipset, disk controller, network controller
> are what matter.

Not quite, if I understand correctly.  I wouldn't want, for example, a
core i3, since
it doesn't support  "virtualization technology", so I wouldn't be able
to run 64 bit
guest OSes.



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