[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network – ready for mainstream?

sonofzev at iinet.net.au sonofzev at iinet.net.au
Thu Sep 3 02:30:52 UTC 2009



On Wed Sep  2 22:16 , Johnny  sent:

>> Intel's nomenclature is horrible, I often see "dual core Pentium" machines on
>> offer, which of course are not core 2 duos. It's like they purposely confused
>> the nomenclature so they could sell old crap to unknowing buyers.
>
>Yeah it is a mess. The Pentiums aren't old though. They name their new
>low end processors Pentiums. It goes Celeron -> Pentium -> Core2 ->
>i7. As you can it is very intuitive and natural. ;-)
>_______________________________________________


They will be changing this to 
Celeron (I think they will remain), Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7.. 

However it's still messy as 

Core i3 dual core
Core i5 = dual core and quad core 
Core i7 = quad core with HT.... 

I'm not sure how virtulisation features will fit into the picture though.. 





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