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Windows 7's 'XP mode' may not work on many PCs

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Computerworld; By Eric Lai 		Mail this story
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The problem for netbooks is that most run Intel Corp.'s Atom N270 processor, which lacks Intel's VT hardware virtualization. The same goes for the N270's successor, the N280, which only recently began shipping. Lack of hardware virtualization support is also a problem for Intel's Atom CPUs for so-called net-top minidesktop PCs, the 230 and the dual-core 330.

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caitlyn ·
Ya gotta love this. You need the uber-expensive versions of Windows 7, not the Starter Edition that netbooks are going to have, and you need a lot of RAM that most netbooks don't have, and you need a chip that many popular desktops, laptops, and all netbooks don't have. Yep, that should be a popular feature.

Of course, you can run Linux and do all the virtualization you want on almost anything current out there at no cost.

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