Grrr... Stupid Intel...

[amelsen]

Now.. IS it just me who finds this stupid or?

Intel have made Atom CPU's with VT-X... and they have made Atom CPU's with Dual Core... why on EARTH have they not made a Dual Core CPU yet that has VT-X... noooo.. only single cores... that makes sense...


grrrrr

... have anyone stumpled across a roadmap that revealed a dual-core atom with vt-x? With one of the ION chip sets being able to support 8gb ram, this suddenly turns into a very nice opportunity for small and cheap virtualisation servers...


- Melsen

 

[theevilsharpie]

I can certainly understand wanting to use an Atom-based PC for personal VM's such as XP mode, but a full-blown server hypervisor? D:

A dual-core Core 2- or Athlon II-based virtual server would be substantially faster and wouldn't cost that much more.

 

[amelsen]

You're right.. the initial price would be more expensive for an Atom.. but in the long run.. it would be a money saver due to the power consumption.

But yes.. I actually would use it for server virtualization. It would only be running low-cpu related servers like websites and the like.. So for a potentially atom-based server, I think that would be quite cool...