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.

[LietKynes]

This is what the e-support member told me the day 11-sep:
"Our engineers have confirmed that no VAIO provides Intel Virtualization Technology support, it is not supported by the bios.

This is the same for all processors (T2300, T2400, T2500), virtualization technology is not enabled, and there is nothing unfortunately we can do to change this."

As you can see, they tell me that doesn't matter if I have a T2300 or a T2300E, they don't give support to the thing that makes them different, so this lack of the virtualization feature is important not only to the owners of notebooks with the T2300, it affects to the ones who have a T2400 or better. I'm not asking only for virtualization support, that is something Sony must enable (is something inherent to the core duo architecturte) but I want the procesor I paid for. This is clearly misleading advertisement, and I want a solution, soon.

[kee-lo_]

I agree it's very misleading, but they've been guilty of this before (anyone remember the HT being disabled on a laptop boasting HT technology?) - I'm not sure what this does but they shouldn't be advertising to do X when it can't do X.