[geeks] "Lord SJobs... ARISE" ... Apple has moved to the Dark Side

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Thu Jan 12 15:30:53 CST 2006


Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
>>Err, electronic fuel injection?  Say what?
>>	Greg
> 
> 
> EFI is Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface
> (http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/).  Intel has been trying to get
> the PC world using it with little success.

 From what I see, they don't even use it much themselves.

Maybe if they used it more often, it would get more attention.

In short: I don't see them as trying very hard.

> Itanium-based machines have always used EFI, the Intel-based Apple
> machines are the first non-Itaniums to use it.  Hopefully they won't be
> the last.

I thought Intel used EFI on some of their P4 server machines?  It seems 
like it was someone on this list that mentioned it, unless we were just 
talking about it.



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