[ltp] What to take care of when buying a Lenovo?

[gervin23@fastmail.fm]

> I can confirm this experience. My MacMini has such a damn not-64-bit
> Core not-2 Duo.
> 
> Unfortunately Intel makes it difficult to distinguish CPUs with or
> without EMT64 and with or without the new virtualization extenstion.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Christoph

An easy way to determine 64bit or Intel Virtualization Technology (IVT)
is to peek at the cpu flags line after issuing "cat /proc/cpuinfo" from
the shell. Having 'lm' means you have 64bit while 'vmx' means you have
IVT.

My T60P has vmx but not lm:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 14
model name      : Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2600  @ 2.16GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 1000.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr
bogomips        : 4328.13
clflush size    : 64

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 14
model name      : Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2600  @ 2.16GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 1000.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr
bogomips        : 4322.62
clflush size    : 64