Re: photo computers: dual core, dual cpu, or single?
- From: Daniel Silevitch <dmsilev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:50:43 GMT
On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:35:13 +0000 (UTC), Dave Martindale <davem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"PossumTrot" <edgodse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Since M$ new OS (Vista) will be out within a year (supposedly) you might
want to check the recent info from M$ about minimum hardware requirements.
Apparently Vista will use a new mechanism for booting, instead of the
BIOS that has been around for nearly forever. The chances of any
motherboard you buy today booting Vista flawlessly are likely to be
small. So, if you want Vista compatibility for sure, wait a year.
You mean EFI? I was under the impression that Vista wouldn't require
(or support) EFI, at least not initially. For EFI-based machines (the
Intel Macs, and I'm not sure what else), booting into Windows XP requires
a BIOS-emulation layer on top of the EFI layer, and booting into Vista
will probably be similar.
A quick Google found this:
http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/E666E4A0A303D9AACA25712C008166C4
"Speaking at Intel Developer Forum San Francisco, Microsoft development
manager, Andrew Ritz, also revealed that there will never be any support
for booting Windows via EFI on systems with 32-bit processors.
Although Microsoft has previously said EFI booting would be supported by
Vista, Ritz admitted that EFI support won't be seen in any version of
Windows until the release of Longhorn Server."
-dms
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