I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.
Lloyd Kvam
python at venix.com
Sun Apr 15 20:18:50 EDT 2012
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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