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Re: debian support and laptops



> Without kvm support, qemu is *quite a bit* slower. Now, exactly *why*
> somebody, in this day and age, would still go on manufacturing
> processors without hardware virtualization support built in, is beyond
> me.  The production costs are in all probability virtually
> identical...

It's called market segmentation.  I.e. it's done so that people who have
more money spend more, while people with less money can still spend
theirs as well.
AMD provides virtualization support across the whole range of chips just
so as to have a (cheap) selling point against Intel at the low-end.


        Stefan


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