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

[Matthew McClement]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 September 2009 18:23:01 Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
>> Ugh, bonghits, wasn't aware it had gotten that bad. Fortunately, I don't
>> have to buy much of anything, its all provided by hardware vendors, who
>> tend to not send their low-end cheap crap our way.
> 
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> 
> 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.

Actually, the Pentium Dual Core is Core 2 based. Specifically the E2xxx
line are Allendale(65nm Core2) and the E5xxx were Wolfdale(45nm Core2).
The confusion arises with the original Pentium D(note, just D, not Dual
or similar), which was the old dual core Netburst based CPU's. These
have been discontinued since mid 2007 AFAIK, so if you see a system
based on one for sale it's either second hand or some ancient stock
salvaged from a warehouse somewhere.

As has been mentioned, both AMD and Intel are guilty of CPU naming mess
that pretty much requires a visit to Wikipedia to figure out the actual
feature set of the CPU. AMD's one saving grace is that *all* their AM2
and later CPU's include AMDV, which is useful if you're trying to build
a low cost VM host.

Matt