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

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 18:48:34 EDT 2012


On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  You're looking at the wrong part.  CPUs are commodities these days.
>
> 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.

  Hmmm.  I don't believe that's correct.  See, for example:

http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx

  But you raise a good point: Not all CPUs have the same feature set,
so my statement that they're a commodity is inaccurate.

-- Ben



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