OT: was: Re: 32 or 64??

[Christopher Chan]

> 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.
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Go AMD. No surprises whether there is hardware virtualization or not.