<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Jan 13, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Alex wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">If it could be done in 2003 by gateway! of all companies! I am sure it will not take very long for</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">an ICBM (Intel Chip Base Mac) :-) (thanks for that rosyna from unsanity.org) to get a hacked Winodze running on it.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>EFI was designed for IA-64. IA-32 systems that boot with EFI use a hardware CSM (Compatibility Support Module) for legacy BIOS support so 32-bit Windows will boot. The question was; will the new Intel Macs boot Windows or other x86 unices. The answer is "no". The Mac does not have a CSM on its motherboard.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Windows or other x-86 unices will not boot on it until Microsoft provides support in 32-bit Windows to do so, and the same applies to linux, FreeBSD or SCO Unix.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Besides, if you need to run Windows, you can buy a comparable PC for a fraction of the price of an Intel Mac. Windows will do everything Mac OS X will do, so just run the one operating system on a (cheaper) PC. Then you don't have to reboot every time you need to switch application environments.<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PGP Key: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/">http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>