Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

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  1. Layback Bear
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    Thanks for the good read. If Mac computers tie the hands of the owner using this UEFI well this is a Mac problem and we use Windows 7. That's probably one of the reasons there aren't many Macs. I think the rest of the computer world are smarter than that.
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  3. mickey megabyte
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    ultimate 64 sp1
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    roll on the future!

    ...it's about time!

    UEFI + SSD = pretty quick booting

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  4. Win7User512
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    mickey megabyte said:
    roll on the future!

    ...it's about time!

    UEFI + SSD = pretty quick booting

    The BIOS issue isn't that big for me other than that some seem much longer than others. I really can't wait for SSDs to come down in price. I need a lot of storage, so the drives are too pricey for me at the moment.

    Thanks for posting the video.
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  5. mickey megabyte
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    Win7User512 said:
    ...I really can't wait for SSDs to come down in price. I need a lot of storage, so the drives are too pricey for me at the moment.

    Thanks for posting the video.
    you can still use an affordable ssd for your os and smaller programs, and keep your existing hdd for data and big programs...

    that's my plan, i'm still saving up...
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  7. Win7User512
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    mickey megabyte said:
    Win7User512 said:
    ...I really can't wait for SSDs to come down in price. I need a lot of storage, so the drives are too pricey for me at the moment.

    Thanks for posting the video.
    you can still use an affordable ssd for your os and smaller programs, and keep your existing hdd for data and big programs...

    that's my plan, i'm still saving up...
    Well my main thing is I want the SSD for my most important data, since it should be more reliable than a mechanical drive.
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  8. Dave76
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    mickey megabyte said:
    roll on the future!

    ...it's about time!

    UEFI + SSD = pretty quick booting

    Nice video mickey, hopefully this will be a FW upgrade.

    Looks like it will need a special way to get in so you can change settings, goes by too fast.
    Which is a problem I wish I had...
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  9. si8mon
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    yowanvista said:
    The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initializes a machine so its operating system can get going.
    The code was not intended to live nearly this long, and adapting it to modern PCs is one reason they take as long as they do to warm up.
    Bios' replacement, known as UEFI, will predominate in new PCs by 2011.
    The acronym stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and is designed to be more flexible than its venerable predecessor.
    This looks prety awesome.
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  11. Skulblaka
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    Impressive, very well done. I'm really looking forward to this.
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  12. si8mon
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    Heres a good and informative article on UEFI.

    Say Goodbye To Your BIOS: Hello, UEFI! : On the Verge Of UEFI

    The motherboard company MSI is the first company to wholly to adopt UEFI, with it coming on all Sandy bridge boards. It is only expected to ship beginning of next year, though.

    Will BIOS Be Dead in 3 Years?
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  13. Lordbob75
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    Looks like my next upgrade will be with an MSI motherboard with UEFI then.

    ~Lordbob
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