Disregarding other comments, Intel is quite innovative, they introduced a PC for instance, that uses 10W of power only when idle, but it can also provide enough computation-performance when needed. The product got quite some native advertising in the german IT-press. You can gues, that the development-costs were high. In order to make it affordable to the public, the company includes things like the boot-guard, you mention. At the local LUG we had two theme-evenings about UEFI and we dealt with that PC. The situation is that it will not boot from Harddisk in UEFI-mode, and when you ask Intel, they really recommend, to use legacy-mode instead. So you have a super-modern, super-innovative PC and you have to run it in legacy-mode, because you are not using Windows. This is clearly the reason for me, why not to buy such products. Intel wants to discriminate against Linux and probably also other alternative operating-systems.
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Intel is innovative
Date: 2015-03-11 11:19 am (UTC)The product got quite some native advertising in the german IT-press.
You can gues, that the development-costs were high. In order to make it affordable to the public, the company includes things like the boot-guard, you mention.
At the local LUG we had two theme-evenings about UEFI and we dealt with that PC. The situation is that it will not boot from Harddisk in UEFI-mode, and when you ask Intel, they really recommend, to use legacy-mode instead. So you have a super-modern, super-innovative PC and you have to run it in legacy-mode, because you are not using Windows. This is clearly the reason for me, why not to buy such products.
Intel wants to discriminate against Linux and probably also other alternative operating-systems.