Agh, this sucks. What the hell is MS thinking? EFI is clearly the BIOS of the future, and Apple is of course out in front in implementing it, but for MS not to support it with Vista is clearly a mistake. Not because it won't boot on the new Macs (at least until Conroe-based desktops come out), but because they are being short-sighted and limiting the hardware makers who build the new boxes. If I'm Dell, I want to ditch BIOS and go to EFI for my techie customers now, and if I do that I'm going to want to standardize my motherboards quickly to lower costs. But hey, wait a tick, this goddam OS still doesn't support EFI, so now I'm stuck straddling the old and new technologies, and maybe I don't even go to the new yet, and why the hell did we bother inventing a new standard anyhow?
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
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Hmm, where to start? First, BIOSes are boring. Ok, I got that off my chest. Second, Apple is the ones breaking backward compatibility left and right and they are somehow the good guys? Apple unilaterally changes their architecture and MS is supposed to do backflips to accomodate them? Wha!? Third, virtual machines, not dual boot, so this is all moot anyway. Fourth, is this all about gaming? If so, you might save yourself some heartache by just plunking down for a $400 Pentium 4 (or, better, an Xbox).
'splain me what I'm missing.
I was under the impression that EFI in the new Macs is like USB was in the iMacs - an emerging standard that happened to be adopted a bit earlier by Apple, and eventually the rest of the industry caught up. Apple can't break backward compatibility when they were never (commercially) compatible with the old-style BIOS anyhow, can they? It's not about gaming - it's about people being able to buy Intel hardware that runs their choice of OS, and if one of those options is a Mac, all the better for Apple. Dual-boot is admittedly a dead-end, but a MacBook Pro booting Vista may not be for some.
Slightly off topic, but not really: can you post your point of view on 1) OSX on vanilla Intel and 2) Windows on Macintel?
Specifically, which should/will be possible/embraced by Apple/Dell/Microsoft. Which is useful, which is just an exercise?
For the sake of argument, assume BIOSes all agree and that the impediments are purely legal and logistical.
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