OT: was: Re: 32 or 64??
Gilles Gravier
ggravier at fsfe.org
Tue Feb 2 19:48:49 UTC 2010
Hi!
On 02/02/2010 20:29, Odd wrote:
> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 02/02/2010 19:33, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:55 -0500, Rashkae wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I couldn't help but notice recently, much to my cost, that Intel is
>>>> removing Virtualization extensions on all their current socket 775
>>>> CPU's.. (how are the i5 and i7 faring?). The only reason I can think
>>>> for this move is to prevent the low end cpus from competing with the
>>>> workstation/server market, since these cpu's are now more than fast
>>>> enough for many workloads to be simply io bound.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I would not surprise me that Intel would do this sort of thing. They are
>>> very clever at maintaining their profit margin.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> FUD. All Intel processors (well... Celerons don't really qualify, here)
>> support VT-X.
>>
> Not true. Here are some non-Celerons
> that do not support VT-x:
>
> Core Duo: T2050 / T2250 / T2300E / T2450
> Core Duo 2: E4300 / E4400 / E4500 / E4600 / E4700
> Core 2 Quad: Q8200 / Q8200S
>
> As I've said repeatedly, you can all get your facts straight
> by going to this page:
>
> http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx
>
You're right. But they are desktop processors.
Gilles.
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