Quote: Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams Since the idea seems to be that you can have both XP and OS X running on the same machine (not to mention Linux, BSD and Solaris) it wo…

Quote: Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams Since the idea seems to be that you can have both XP and OS X running on the same machine Nope. Apple only said that they would no…

Quote: Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams As much as I would love Apple to adpot the old SGI invovation on the 320 and 540 workstations using a firmware driven scheme to run and…

Quote: Originally Posted by RevEvs My windows PC at work does not show any dos prompt or ugliness - so i doubt apples intel machines will. My pc will show a image and then go s…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter The picture the PC shows you is just there to hide all the command line stuff going on behind the scenes-it's still there, you just don't se…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter My problem with EFI as I understand it is that it implements some form of DRM before the OS even starts to load. If I'm wrong, please corre…

DRM is coming whether we like it or not. (unfortunately) and there's not a whole lot we can do about that. My main concern is that while Trusted computing is happening, Apple's not…

Quote: Originally Posted by Eug Wanker Meh. That assumes that Steve Jobs actually wants to have XP running on Mac hardware. In fact, it could just be the opposite. Either way, i…

Quote: Originally Posted by TETENAL Did you ever boot your Mac while holding down ⌘V? There is command line stuff behind the scenes as well. Who cares? The command line stuff…

I will answer your question this way: Darwin has a built in boot loader which Startup Disk is a frontend to.

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter Frankly, over almost two years of using OS X, I haven't seen ANY boot problems, though I've seen something like two dozen on my PC desktop d…

Quote: Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams Well, the idea in my mind for this is that it makes the Mac that more attractive and "risk free" since you can run both OSes (plus a lo…

Quote: Originally Posted by SirCastor It would be poor marketing to push at all the idea that a Mac can run Windows. We want to sell the Macintosh, not a CHRP system. If Apple s…

Apple is a hardware company, but Apple is not a Windows hardware company.

Quote: Originally Posted by TETENAL Is it confirmed already that the Intel-Macs will be standard PCs? It was my understanding that Apple switching to Intel processors doesn't au…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter The only things I've seen confirmed are that Apple will use Intel processors, OpenFirmware is history, and that the final product computers …

Quote: Originally Posted by TETENAL Did you ever boot your Mac while holding down ⌘V? There is command line stuff behind the scenes as well. Who cares? isn't that behind os…

"open firmware" isn't superior to a PC BIOS. It performs the very same functions. You can get a pretty graphical 'firmware' interface in a peecee BIOS. Hell, some will even tal…

Quote: Originally Posted by Eug Wanker Meh. That assumes that Steve Jobs actually wants to have XP running on Mac hardware. In fact, it could just be the opposite. Either way, i…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter The only things I've seen confirmed are that Apple will use Intel processors, OpenFirmware is history, and that the final product computers …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter The only things I've seen confirmed are that Apple will use Intel processors, OpenFirmware is history, and that the final product computers …

Quote: Originally Posted by Eug Wanker 3) The final product computers will be able to run Windows - This is incorrect. Apple never has said this directly. True; I haven't fou…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter True; I haven't found a direct quote about this. But I saw something around the announcement from someone pretty high up in Apple about the…

The DTK uses what appears to be a standard PC BIOS. Hitting F1 while booting will bring up a PC-style CMOS setup screen. This probably won't be the case with the finished product. …

Quote: Originally Posted by mike3k The DTK uses what appears to be a standard PC BIOS. Hitting F1 while booting will bring up a PC-style CMOS setup screen. This probably won't b…