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Mac Rumors notes the potential for virtualization in Intel’s new Yonah chip
One reader points out that one significant new feature in Intel’s upcoming Yonah Processor is “Virtualization Technology”. Intel describes it as “allowing a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions.”
The examples of use Intel provides include uses for administrators performing background system upgrades as well as separating business and personal use environments. The most interesting potential use is described here:
Home users could create virtual “partitions†isolating multiple user environments such as dedicating resources to a PC game, productivity, and personal video recorder-type environmentsPotential uses under Apple’s implementation of the Intel processors, of course, the possibility to launch multiple operating systems, such as Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X. Alternatively, Tiger’s Fast User Switching could be expanded to provide completely independent environments.
Virtualization is the most significant development in computers in years, and as you can see just reading that excerpt, can turn the way we use computers, on its head.
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