Replies

They don't have 30 year-old BIOS, they have the new EFI with BIOS compatibility. Windows has been EFI native for the Itanium platform for years, but it has recently crept into the x86-64 world with the 64-bit Server 2008 and Vista SP1.

This comment brought to you buy someone using an internet connection running on TCP/IP, a 30 year old communication protocol.

I don't care about the BIOS, frankly. That's not at the top of my list on important features. As long as it works without causing problems, it's good enough.

I don't care about the BIOS, frankly. That's not at the top of my list on important features. As long as it works without causing problems, it's good enough.

BIOS being old does cause some problems. It is supposed to be the interface between the hardware and the software, but it can't be anymore because of its limitations like being dependent on the old AT architecture, being 16-bit and addressing only 1 MB of memory. That's why all modern operating systems use it mainly just to boot. Any high-speed BIOS these days is only that because of a bunch of hacks and workarounds. EFI or other more modern systems give you better disk handling and access to a shell and device drivers before the OS even loads. This is how you get lights-out management and immediate booting into a graphical system with a Mac.