thinq.co.uk— MSI says that it's planning a big shift towards UEFI at the end of 2010, possibly spelling the end of the BIOS as we know it.
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all i'm saying is that exemplified in your complaints as an amazing programmer who's coded for 35 years, you've lost sight of the fact that none of these issues really effect the end user. there's no shortage of hardware peripherals for the mac - people into video and sound (most of the people who use macs) rely on tons of hardware that's 'out of the loop' to get the job done. if i shoot on a cannon HD cam, i can still read the SD card on my mac. i can still plug in my awesome condenser mic into my firewire audio interface via XRL. what exactly am i, the end user, missing out on?the fact of the matter is - and this is what a lot of non-mac people 'don't get' - is that i don't use my computer to play Dark Age of Camelot or Commander Keen. i need Logic Studio, and Final Cut Pro - that's how i bring home the bacon. and there's nothing wrong with actually having an aesthetic appeal within an OS - maybe not to a hardcore old-schooler who prefers a wall of text, but hell even then you can still run apps and navigate your system using the Terminal app. Windows 7 only employs aesthetic appeal because OSX raised the bar. it made XP look like OS9.so you can get technical about how i've been 'duped' by buying a mac, but you'd be extremely narrow-minded to do so.
I should clarify. I'm not saying either port is "bad" or "not useful", my point is that PCs are highly steeped in legacy, so I don't see the BIOS (legacy item) going away anytime soon.
misternilsJun 9, 2010
Represent!
blitz718Jun 9, 2010
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postalblowfish7Jun 9, 2010
all i'm saying is that exemplified in your complaints as an amazing programmer who's coded for 35 years, you've lost sight of the fact that none of these issues really effect the end user. there's no shortage of hardware peripherals for the mac - people into video and sound (most of the people who use macs) rely on tons of hardware that's 'out of the loop' to get the job done. if i shoot on a cannon HD cam, i can still read the SD card on my mac. i can still plug in my awesome condenser mic into my firewire audio interface via XRL. what exactly am i, the end user, missing out on?the fact of the matter is - and this is what a lot of non-mac people 'don't get' - is that i don't use my computer to play Dark Age of Camelot or Commander Keen. i need Logic Studio, and Final Cut Pro - that's how i bring home the bacon. and there's nothing wrong with actually having an aesthetic appeal within an OS - maybe not to a hardcore old-schooler who prefers a wall of text, but hell even then you can still run apps and navigate your system using the Terminal app. Windows 7 only employs aesthetic appeal because OSX raised the bar. it made XP look like OS9.so you can get technical about how i've been 'duped' by buying a mac, but you'd be extremely narrow-minded to do so.
pgiesselJun 10, 2010
I should clarify. I'm not saying either port is "bad" or "not useful", my point is that PCs are highly steeped in legacy, so I don't see the BIOS (legacy item) going away anytime soon.
grumpyoldmanJun 11, 2010
Bout time!
d3a1i0_Jun 11, 2010
Nice! This should make building a Hackintosh a breeze (more then it already is).
djdisconessJun 21, 2010
Do I really need a /s?!?!