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

[Jerry Feldman]

On 04/15/2012 08:36 AM, Bill Freeman wrote:
> 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.
The Lenovo T420 with i5 does support "virtualization technology"

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