> Ok, did you try it on Eee? The most complaints with > Eee and similar platforms is thanks to vga chipset > which is not able to play HD movies. I think that > this netbook can't play HD too because of chipset > too, but we are talking about CPU platform. Read eg. > this http://www.osnews.com/story/21530 x86/x64 is > still that same old buggy platform which wasn't build > with virtualization in mind. And for geek similar > netbooks with ARM or MIPS may offer a lot. > > BTW watching HD on 9" display is like using Ferrari > instead of tractor
Depends on the chip, I'd think. x86 on a chip with AMD-v or VT-x, IOMMU support, and nested page table support ought to be able to handle virtualization pretty nicely. (Of course, I doubt most of the Atom chips can do any of that.) AFAIK, most current x86 chips fall short of e.g. UltraSPARC on RAS features and on large-scale SMP support, more than on virtualization support; but I gather they're getting better. Seems to me that x86 would be perfectly adequate for a small-to-media database or storage appliance. (think Thumper) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
