From what i understand theres finally going to be a change from old school bios to EFI, similar to mac's. I was in the market for a new pc in a month or so but wonderred when these new boards come out? any links?

Cheers

Interesting.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface

Does this mean we will have instant-on-from-cold booting PC's ? Might still take a while for Windows to load its shizzy drivers

How awesome would it be if Windows came in the form of a stick of ram or similar. Slot it in and no stuffing around with installations. Instant boot up. There are also lots of bad reasons not to do that either, one of them being we wouldn't have our pirated copies.

8-)

Glen :P

In that wikipedia article theres a bit that says "In April 2006 Apple released a beta version of Boot Camp, a bootloader which allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP, booting from EFI."

Now Im not lucky enough to own or have access to one of those sweet Core Duo Intel Macs, but I did see some video on some video site (as you would expect) of bootcamp loading Windows XP 32 bitty; how quickly or slowly it loaded I do not recall so I might chase that up. Youtube anyone?

Hopefully in the not to distant future you'll be able to get something like a 20gig flash drive that you could use to run your OS on.

We got 4gb pendrives that are tiny now so theres no reason it can't happen soon.

hmmmm, looks intel chipset or worse, intel only. from the looks of other vista features (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/14/windows_vista_flash_booster_tech/)
this may be only a small percentage. perhaps hybrid drives are the ones to look for (hd + memory).

A number of old Intel E7205 boards used EFI years ago, but then since that everything has gone back to BIOS :(

Intel Itanium and Intel Itanic based systems are the only ones that I know of that readily use EFI.

when seconds of uptime count, Itanic is there... kind of ironic really if you think of the ships name said with similar phonetics

Interesting.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_fuel_injection

hahaha

lol Grimy your link toake me to http://www.w3.org/Protocols/

Jim,

Hm, sounds like something that can be appropriately paired with Intel's new gas powered CPU: Xenon.

Interesting.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_fuel_injection

i came here to post this



damn you jim http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-argh.gif

i think the instant on technology got stalled somewhat cause they needed to figure out how to make it work with trusted computing

i'd look it up or something but cbf

Does this get rid of the s***ty 256 colour vga loading screen like in mac os 10?

they made flash drives that you put in your pci slot but they need a battery to keep the data while they are off

computers with Electronic Fuel Injection? thats a first...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzi5wJxuMp0

^ heres a youtube of a guy with a macbook starting in osx then switching to what i assume is a bootcamp install of win xp, maybe its the earlier hack before apple made bootcamp available...

Seems pretty slow huh