New Mactels use EFI not regular BIOS

11 Jan 2006

Further to my previous entry, the new iMac and MacBook Pro both use EFI instead of a standard BIOS, according to Apple's Developer Documentation. This means it's unlikely that the new Macs will be able to run 32-bit Windows XP natively until Vista turns up – unless someone does something very, very clever.

Thanks to Paul D for the info.

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Posted by Rob Buckley on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 6:16 PM | 1 TrackBacks

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