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Apple's Boot Camp beta

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Aloone_Jonez:
And that won't happen.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: cymon ---No, it can't be reverse engineered. Macs don't use the standard PC BIOS, so it wouldn't even boot it the first place. Not to mention that you'd have very little hardware support, so unless you had the exact same hardware as any of the Macs, you'd be in the same situation as the Linux ATi users.
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I've heard about an effort to build drivers for more (not-sold-by-Apple) hardware for Mac OS X.

If they managed to make Linux drivers work, that would kick arse.

WMD:

--- Quote from: sjor ---Unless they start making PCs with Open Firmware.
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Intel Macs use EFI, not Open Firmware.

Paladin9:
This is NOT a fake.  There was an article on in on the BBC news website.

mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: Refalm ---The obvious question: can it run x86(-64) Linux too?
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They've always been able to run Linux.  

The macbooks are, from what I have read on the web, using the Yonah dual core chip.  This is a pretty neat chip, but is 32 bit instruction set only.  I've read on diggthat it's actually a 64 bit chip but just doesn't have the 64 bit instruction set enabled.  Fully enabled 64-bit dual core notebook intel chips (Merom) are supposedly to be out this year( http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2721).

I honestly don't know if the desktop versions are using the x86-64 versions of Intel core chips.

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