Do the Intel chips in our current MBP support Virtualization Technology?

Do the Intel chips in our current MBP support Virtualization Technology? I think there are going to be many advantages to having that supported, esp in the future. the ability to run multiple OSs at the same time is coming and i want to know if we will be able to take advantage of that technology with our current chips.

Hypervisor support doesn't allow the system to switch between active INTERACTIVE OSs.
Its designed as a more efficient replacement for products like Qemu and VMWare. Like Xen, it brings down the level of emulation/virtualization closer to hardware so that no OS has any kind of priviledge over the others (not really any host OS, just one that has control of the hypervisor.
Its awesome technology, and neat to see, but its really geared towards server virtualization (we use a variant of this in production, and can put 2-3 virtual servers on each physical machine).

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    Is the external iSight camera compatable with the intel chip

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    Message was edited by: EZ Jim
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    Firefox not only disappears from my dock but also from my Applications folder. I tried to downl0ad it again today (5/19/2011), however, it says my system isn't compatible because I don't have an Intel processor. Any suggestions. I have problems with Safari and like to use Firefox but can't if it keeps disappearing and then Mozilla tells me that I can't install after I have already downloaded the application.

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