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

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 18:48 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> 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.

My current laptop uses a chip

model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P7550  @ 2.26GHz

that the Intel site listed as having VT-x.  Unfortunately, that was not
true.  In actual practice, it has not mattered for me.  Virtual Box has
been able to run the guests I needed.  (These were all 32 bit guests.)

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Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
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