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Dr. No
Jan 10, 2006, 10:52 PM
(Courtesy of Nermal)

Just to clear things up,
New Intel macs use Intel EFI firmware. (NOT BIOS)


http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/universal_binary_diffs/chapter_3_section_10.html


I believe it will be slightly different from our current Mac firmware, but I do not know how.


robbieduncan
Jan 11, 2006, 05:14 AM
It's nothing like current Mac firmware but at least it's not a 1980s BIOS. This should enable stuff like target-disk mode to be implemented.

On the down side (for some) I'm not sure that current Windows can boot from an EFI board. I'm sure a version that can will be along soon though.
dubbz
Jan 11, 2006, 05:26 AM
On the down side (for some) I'm not sure that current Windows can boot from an EFI board. I'm sure a version that can will be along soon though.

I think HP sell Windows 2003 PCs/servers using EFI, so I asume it supports it. Don't know about Windows XP (32-bit) though. Possibly not (yet). Vista will support it.