On a Notebook it is useful if you want to run virtual machines, like Virtualbox, KVM or similar. Of course it would make no sense to run a production Hyper-V on a notebook, but for presentation reasons it might come handy. But simple virtualization is commonplace nowadays, if only for safe(r) web browsing.
With the drive towards greener IT, it can make sense in certain instances to use a mobile CPU in a low power virtualization server.
The cpu uses exactly the same technology as in server technology: Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x). This technology is in just about every Intel CPU by now.
Not integrating VTX into the mobile CPUs would be a major effort for the cpu producers: They would have to have entirely different development branches for mobile and desktop cpus, while they try to keep the cpus as coherent as possible to minimize development issues. In short, it is cheaper to have it in than to leave it out.
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3 years ago
I have a Dell laptop I bought in 2006 and it has Virtualization Technology option in the BIOS.
My CPU is an Intel T7200.
For me, the VT option is used to use ESXi or Hyper-V on a machine, but on a laptop?
What does the VT option does in a laptop?