Well, this morning I just got really miffed at what I thought was my bad decision on buying a laptop a little over a year ago. I bought a really sweet 64 bit, 4GB RAM Gateway.

Today I finally loaded up XP Mode on the new load of Windows 7 Ultimate. Wouldn't you know it, it said I didn't have hardware virtualization enabled. So, I figured I messed up and didn't think ahead when I bought the laptop. But NO! It wasn't me, it was GATEWAY! Eventhough my Intel processor indeed does sport the VT-X feature, Gateway in their infinite wisdom decided to disable in their BIOS. THEN...they even removed the flag from the BIOS editor to let me enable it myself!

Of course now my PC is "out of warranty" and I will have to pay their support to "hope" somebody can help me out with this. Hmmm. I think not. Bye Bye Gateway - I am back to buyin a more corporate friendly PC from now on.

Moral of story: Be careful with the OEMs. They think they know better than you what technologies you should use. Don't believe them!