rMB: No Parallels or VMware Fusion???

[iRun26.2]

Unlike the core i7 series, the core M specification quotes 'None' in the 'virtualization' category (web-site listed below).

http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_m_5y71-453-vs-intel_core_i7_4510u-446

Does that mean I can't run Parallels?! Must I, then, completely rely on BootCamp to run Windows applications?

(That would suck!)

 

[Rigby]

This is incorrect. The Core M-5Y71 does support the same virtualization technologies as the i-5/i-7 (and also AES-NI). See:

http://ark.intel.com/products/84672/Intel-Core-M-5Y71-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-2_90-GHz

BTW, the benchmarks on this "CPU-Monkey" page are also complete BS. I have no idea how they manage to show up in so many search results (probably "search engine optimization").

 

[Serban]

you can run easily those apps because of the standard 8Gb RAM. Those are more Ram hungry than Cpu

 

[iRun26.2]

This is incorrect. The Core M-5Y71 does support the same virtualization technologies as the i-5/i-7 (and also AES-NI). See:

http://ark.intel.com/products/84672/Intel-Core-M-5Y71-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-2_90-GHz

BTW, the benchmarks on this "CPU-Monkey" page are also complete BS. I have no idea how they manage to show up in so many search results (probably "search engine optimization").

While I wish you are right, I think you are wrong. In the specification web-page you referenced the "vt-x" parameter is blank, implying it is not capable of hardware assisted virtualization.

 

[LedCop]

While I wish you are right, I think you are wrong. In the specification web-page you referenced the "vt-x" parameter is blank, implying it is not capable of hardware assisted virtualization.

I'm not sure what you're seeing, but this is what I see:

 

[iRun26.2]

I'm not sure what you're seeing, but this is what I see:

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I don't know what I was looking at before but it does appear that virtualization is support. What is relief!!!

 

[Rigby]

I don't know what I was looking at before but it does appear that virtualization is support. What is relief!!!

BTW, at least VMWare Fusion and Virtualbox for the most part work without hardware assist as well (using binary translation). The performance may be lower and some special features (like nested hypervisors) will not work, but you can run regular VMs even on CPUs without vt-x. I don't know if the same is true for Parallels.