The Google Webmaster Tools has a page speed metric. It is measured from people who have the Google toolbar installed and have flipped a switch somewhere. Your speed it measured on an average of these folks. There is a measure of accuracy (low, medium or high) depending on the number of points of data it has collected.
There is also the time the crawler spent downloading pages in milliseconds.

Who know which one of these they use (or combination there of.

Can I have my $300 back then?

I have that exact processor. Only found out about the VT thing after I got it home. I was not happy. The booklet even says that it doesn't have the VT extensions.
Virt-Manager and Virtual Box say otherwise though.

RE: Images

Licensing? Nightmare.
Bandwidth? Eek.
Security? Whoa!
Compatibility? Doesn't downgrade nicely (that page looks horrible in a "stable" browser of today and is almost unreadable)
Gains? Geocities-like webpages that use every image they can just for the sake of it. Seven million websites with pictures of cats. And only the sensible browsers will come with options to turn the damn thing off (and thus look even worse).

Stupid idea, stupid execution (having to DOWNLOAD every image mentioned on a page?)

I think when you have to cite Geocities as an example, we aren't talking about web design...

Yes, you are wrong.

It's the GPU it doesn't have access to. It has access to most of the SPUs and only 256Mb RAM though.

Ultrasphinx gives you a limited view of the capabilities too. Playing with the real API is much more powerful.