Awesome that we will have bug-free firmware. /sarcasm
In reality there will be bugs, naive implementations, etc. While (especially Windows pirates) will get through that (and stupidly continue dealing with it like there's no underlying problem), I don't want to have to fight to get my machine booting an OS I want (Gentoo here).
Are we even that much better off from getting away from BIOS anyway? Just because something is old, standardised (yet still not very much open source) does not mean it does not work. Give me the REAL benefits of UEFI vs BIOS that aren't aesthetic improvements. I hear standard API, good. I hear 'awesome graphics', don't care. Boot time improvement? Maybe interested, not really (as I rarely reboot, only Windows and Ubuntu/Debian machines do that constantly; even Apple rarely sends an update that requires a reboot).
This is written on a Mac (Lion upgraded). We can still choose any OS we want here (except can't go down a version from the one that came with the machine), EFI (and we can even install 'old-fashioned' BIOS based OS's too). I wonder if Apple will get involved, but considering Microsoft's track record with Apple I think not. Apple sells hardware after all. This is much more reflected in the price of Lion. 'We don't care if Apple succeeds in their endeavour or not.' <-- technical evangelist at MS, revealed during the anti-trust case, regarding Apple using certain MS technology (Win32 for Mac primarily) to 'improve' their apps in MacOS
Buy Macs and tell Apple why. Tell them you like choice. Apple loves marketing random things that make no real sense to the average consumer, but 'sound good'. In the end, this would be good.
Bug-free firmware?
/sarcasm
In reality there will be bugs, naive implementations, etc. While (especially Windows pirates) will get through that (and stupidly continue dealing with it like there's no underlying problem), I don't want to have to fight to get my machine booting an OS I want (Gentoo here).
Are we even that much better off from getting away from BIOS anyway? Just because something is old, standardised (yet still not very much open source) does not mean it does not work. Give me the REAL benefits of UEFI vs BIOS that aren't aesthetic improvements. I hear standard API, good. I hear 'awesome graphics', don't care. Boot time improvement? Maybe interested, not really (as I rarely reboot, only Windows and Ubuntu/Debian machines do that constantly; even Apple rarely sends an update that requires a reboot).
This is written on a Mac (Lion upgraded). We can still choose any OS we want here (except can't go down a version from the one that came with the machine), EFI (and we can even install 'old-fashioned' BIOS based OS's too). I wonder if Apple will get involved, but considering Microsoft's track record with Apple I think not. Apple sells hardware after all. This is much more reflected in the price of Lion.
'We don't care if Apple succeeds in their endeavour or not.' <-- technical evangelist at MS, revealed during the anti-trust case, regarding Apple using certain MS technology (Win32 for Mac primarily) to 'improve' their apps in MacOS
Buy Macs and tell Apple why. Tell them you like choice. Apple loves marketing random things that make no real sense to the average consumer, but 'sound good'. In the end, this would be good.