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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