| Re: Dual Core Apple "MacBook", and RSI's Mac Intel plans [message #46972 is a reply to message #46940] |
Fri, 13 January 2006 08:57   |
Ricardo Bugalho
Messages: 22
Registered: March 2005
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Hi,
the reason is that Apple's Intel iMacs aren't PC compatible. Apple
ditched the legacy IBM PC and it's BIOS.
Instead they went EFI, a firmware standard created by Intel a few years
ago.
The only Windows versions that supports EFI are the Itanium ones (all
Itanium systems use EFI) and only Windows Vista will bring support EFI
on x86(-64) systems. Therefore, it won't boot.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 09:18 -0500, Matt Feinstein wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2006 08:07:11 -0800, phaccount@nycap.rr.com wro
> The killer option is a Windows/OS X dual-boot workstation, but it
> looks like that won't happen for a while. The various items I've read
> are somewhat unclear, but, apparently, dual-boot XP+OS X is not a
> possibility with the new macs because of BIOS/firmware issues. However
> Vista+OS X will be possible and, IMO, poses a major threat to linux.
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