Sony is using the T2300E instead of the T2300 without telling us.

[LietKynes]

All the users of notebooks with a Core Duo T2300 should check if they got what they paid for. You can know with a hardware checking program as CPUz or Sandra 2007 if Sony has used in your pc a cheaper T2300E, which lacks virtualization support, instead of the advertised T2300. I mailed the Sony consumer support asking about this, and they told me that it really doesn't matters, because they don't provide virtualization due to lack of bios support in all the vaio models, so this lack of a feature affects to all of us, not only to the ones that got crippled processors, it affects to the ones with T2400s and T2500s too. I'm really pissed with SONY, my VGN-FE21M has the nasty clicking hard disk and they don't do anything about it, and now this, this is misleading advertisement, and is a fraud. We should get the proccesors we are paying for, not the crippled ones SONY are giving us.

[Naujoks]

Before I get really angry, can you tell us excatly which features we will not be able to use because of this, and in which way I should feel crippled on a day to day basis?

[kee-lo_]

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[LietKynes]

Before I get really angry, can you tell us excatly which features we will not be able to use because of this, and in which way I should feel crippled on a day to day basis?

Virtualization allow you to use in real time two instances of an operative system with full performance, in native mode, instead of emulation which is desesperately slow. This isn't going to be something to worry about for a lot of users, at least for now, but there are users that need to use at the same time aplications of linux and windows, or want to test in a clean instance of windows their applications without risking their main instalation. I know this is going to be used in future versions of windows vista, it's going to be implemented in a patch for the second half of 2007, using independent instances of the OS for each application to improve the security and responsiveness, and this is something we paid for...

[frannys]

I have just checked my CPU with Crystal CPUID v5,it states that my Cpu is a'T2300@1.66ghz',code name 'Yonah DC' .'Model E',then it states what the CPU can do,'MMX-SSE-SSE2-SSE3-NX/XD-Speedstep-VT-Dual Core'.
I also checked with CPU-Z,but it only tells you what the CPU is,not what it can do.Intels Cpu ID will not work on Vista so I could'nt use that.However niether ID programme showed the CPU as having an E after T2300.The E is shown as the Model further down the list.Yet the Instructions clearly state VT is included.
I also checked this against one of our main systems,that I know does not have the VT.It showed the VT grayed out.The Label on the facia of my Laptop also states'T2300,there is no E.My advice to you is to make sure that the CPU is different to what is stated in the specifications,if it is,take it back,demand a refund and choose a different make and model.

[LietKynes]

Mine has VT grayed out in CrystalCPUID. I'm sure it has a T2300E, CrystalCPUID is the third program that tells me my processor doesn't support Virtualization.

[frannys]

If the VT is greyed out then it proberly is an E.You do have the right to take it back you know,if your sure.

[frannys]

btw.Have you downloaded Intels ID utility.That should clarify it for sure.

[frannys]

Now I am back on MCE,I just downloaded the Intel app.It says mine is a Model E,and the only things it didnt do was Hyperthreading and 64bit.

[kee-lo_]

Has VAIO Link got back to you?