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Originally Posted by Stogieman
iBuzz. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
That's great, Man! Thanks for the link.
Let me be the first one to stand up and say I'm…
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Originally Posted by PappyAnn
wow!!!!!!!! apple is really dumb for that one...... ok the get your husband a charger he will def need one
Your signature is too big, p…
Does OS X for Intel have a nice user-friendly boot loader for choosing between OS X and other installed operating systems (read linux and windows) or will is be some hacked-togethe…
So far as I've read, while Apple will not make it impossible to run other OSs, they aren't going to go out of their way to make it easy.
I'm more interested in the boot process it…
Well - that's too bad. I would imagine that a nice apple-branded switcher to make it easy to switch to OS X, so people don't go to do something in windows and stay there. Especiall…
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Originally Posted by ghporter
So far as I've read, while Apple will not make it impossible to run other OSs, they aren't going to go out of their way to make it easy.
I'…
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Originally Posted by Xestrel
Well - that's too bad. I would imagine that a nice apple-branded switcher to make it easy to switch to OS X, so people don't go to do somethi…
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Originally Posted by mduell
Moving from a cryptic command line using an obscure programming language to a friendly menu driven user interface is backward? I guess the iP…
The point is moot anyways. As you said earlier, Open Firmware is deader than a doornail for Intel Macs.
Given that, EFI definitely looks like it's the #1 option on the list for 20…
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Originally Posted by mduell
It is kind of neat that you can solve the Tower of Hanoi problem in a computers firmware shell, but I have yet to see any compelling arguement…
if it looks anything like this
http://www.3dnews.ru/documents/10127/4200-5.jpg
I'll be buying one of the last G5's and sticking with it for the next few years
keep it as close to t…
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Originally Posted by sushiism
if it looks anything like this
http://www.3dnews.ru/documents/10127/4200-5.jpg
I'll be buying one of the last G5's and sticking with it for …
Wikipedia (fwiw) says this:
EFI also provides for a small shell environment. Rather than booting directly into a full OS, the EFI end user can boot to EFI shell. The EFI shell is …
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and If I may ask, why is Open Firmware gone? If it's hardware independant, and Apple's got Intel making specific MBs anyway, why can't they just say 'hey, use thi…
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Originally Posted by SirCastor
and If I may ask, why is Open Firmware gone? If it's hardware independant, and Apple's got Intel making specific MBs anyway, why can't they…
I seem to remember folks who had the systems posting information about them, including that intel wsa providing the boards for the dev boxes. That may not mean a whole lot though.