Quote Originally Posted by dinos22 View Post
seriously who gives a about virtualisation

until they make it work properly with true indepenent workloads off one computer VT is a load of crap IMO

i want my ONE computer to simulataneously play games in one room, surf the net in another and be a full blown HTPC with HDTV feed and real time recording in the third, hell while i'm at it hook up my room 4 and 5 with some movie playback as well
Umm you're quite clueless about the whole industry, I can tell. Here are some snippets from the real world so you might will consider things beyond your stinky basement...
1. Server market makes the mfrs fat, not your pathetic little home machine purchases.
2. Profit rate is much higher on server units and virtualization is one of the hottest - and I personally think the best - thing on the server market for years and on top of it helps to sell new CPUs.
3. I, for one (animation/post company), only use DC Opterons for our VMware machines: each DL145 (2x O285, 8GB RAM, SAS drives) machine runs at least 2 virtualized version of former physical servers - I save money on electricity, on management, on networking, everything and most importantly a lot of headaches/work (e.g. floating license servers: no need for server re-authentication for a dozen or so software after a hardware failure etc).

So the only load of crap here was your post, thanks to your ignorance on virtualization.