Sony Ships Wrong CPU's
Sledgehammer70
California Icrontian
From the reports getting posted online users of the Sony SZ2 laptops are finding that their new toy is not a Intel T2300, but a T2300E. These processors sport all but one similarity which is VT "Virtualization Technology" support. Sony's site since users started noticing this issue now states that Virtualization Technology isn't supported, while still maintaining in multiple places that the CPU is a T2300, without the extra E.
Source: The Inquirer
Buyers want what they pay for...Both processors are dual-core 1.66GHz chips with the same amount of cache - the only difference between the two CPUs is that the E version doesn't carry the same virtualization technology as the the non-E version. The bottom of the range T2300E was a drop-in replacement for the T2300, beginning in June of this year.
Even though VT is mainly aimed at high-end workstations and servers, people generally want to be given what's been originally quoted in advertisements. VT can still be effectively used on a laptop using a low-end processor such as the T2300, and quite rightly people are disgruntled at not getting their promised goods with the stated specification.
Source: The Inquirer
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