while virtualization is not perfect, it's not THAT bad.

FYI GDawrf what you're thinking of is more like emulation. there's not really and translation going on here, and while there is increased overhead and virtualization is not as efficient, it's not THAT bad for many things, hence why it's such a GREAT thing for higher end computing at the server level. Though in that regard AMD still has a fair lead over intel in virtualization. Then again when you've got more brute force overall it doesn't matter as much

it'd be more accurate to think of it like this, you've got one OS running, then you've got another one running next to it but kind of latched on. Now the way current virtualization is implemented you basically have HORRIBLE driver support, but if you're running OSX you'de have had horrible driver support to begin with. OSX has the most mediocre drivers of any OS out there.

FYI every intel mac has a multi core CPU as far as I know, aside form perhaps a random laptop or two running core solos.

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