Over the past six months or so, people have been talking more and more about the idea of putting a bare-metal hypervisor on a laptop. Citrix and VMware have both demonstrated projects for this, and start-ups Neocleus and Virtual Computer hope to really shake up the industry. In this presentation transcript, independent industry expert Brian Madden will take a step back and look at “why”. Why would we want to put a hypervisor on a laptop? What real-world benefits will they give us, and what's just hype?