| BIOS, EFI, Intel Macs etc. [message #63008] |
Fri, 13 January 2006 07:51  |
TCB
Messages: 1261
Registered: July 2007
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www.tomshardware.com, where brainwashed, braindamaged, reactionary M$oft/Debian
types like me go to find out what's happening in the wonderful world of computer
hardware, has a story about the new Macs.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/12/how_different_are_the_new_ intel-based_macs/
It includes interesting things about the chipset (looks like 945), the EFI
question (doesn't look like much of an issue), and some discussion about
the hardware end. The bottom line is that putting XP or GNU\Linux on your
Intel box from Apple will be trivial. Some brainwashed moron around here
mentioned probably as simple as changing the bootloader, and it appears he's
right, amazing enough considering that he drools out of one side of his mouth
most of the time and when he sees a car he points to it and yells "machine
horsie" to his home care specialists. Getting OS X running on your home brew
PC, though, looks trickier. Getting the core OS to boot is probably just
an issues of an afternoon of assembly programming by a top programmer to
convince OS X that it's booting on the right hardware, but after that we
get into questions of drivers and such and things get murkier. We should
have that machine horsie guy check into it a little more, but if he stops
throwing his oatmeal at the wall and soiling his Depends long enough to investigate
it wouldn't surprise me at all if he came back and said that as long as the
home brew PC stuck to the same chipset as the Apple Intel boxes one might
have a pretty good shot.
TCB
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| Re: BIOS, EFI, Intel Macs etc. [message #63026 is a reply to message #63008] |
Fri, 13 January 2006 08:29  |
Tony Benson
Messages: 453
Registered: June 2006
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Is that sarcasm I sense Thad? ;>)
Tony
"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:43c7be72$1@linux...
>
> www.tomshardware.com, where brainwashed, braindamaged, reactionary
> M$oft/Debian
> types like me go to find out what's happening in the wonderful world of
> computer
> hardware, has a story about the new Macs.
>
> http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/12/how_different_are_the_new_ intel-based_macs/
>
> It includes interesting things about the chipset (looks like 945), the EFI
> question (doesn't look like much of an issue), and some discussion about
> the hardware end. The bottom line is that putting XP or GNU\Linux on your
> Intel box from Apple will be trivial. Some brainwashed moron around here
> mentioned probably as simple as changing the bootloader, and it appears
> he's
> right, amazing enough considering that he drools out of one side of his
> mouth
> most of the time and when he sees a car he points to it and yells "machine
> horsie" to his home care specialists. Getting OS X running on your home
> brew
> PC, though, looks trickier. Getting the core OS to boot is probably just
> an issues of an afternoon of assembly programming by a top programmer to
> convince OS X that it's booting on the right hardware, but after that we
> get into questions of drivers and such and things get murkier. We should
> have that machine horsie guy check into it a little more, but if he stops
> throwing his oatmeal at the wall and soiling his Depends long enough to
> investigate
> it wouldn't surprise me at all if he came back and said that as long as
> the
> home brew PC stuck to the same chipset as the Apple Intel boxes one might
> have a pretty good shot.
>
> TCB
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