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Macs use EFI, don't they? My MBP cold boots fairly quickly, but nothing to write home about.
by frou_dh 16y ago
Macs use EFI, don't they? My MBP cold boots fairly quickly, but nothing to write home about.
- modoc 16y agoThrow in a fast SSD and it will blow your socks off!
- frou_dh 16y agoI'll buy a SSD the day a good 512GB one costs less than a month's rent :-)
- modoc 16y agoJust move to NYC or SF and you'll be all set:)
- baddox 16y agoThe cheapest 256GB one on newegg costs about what I pay a month for rent. I must ask, though, why in the world do you need 512GB for your boot drive? The 32GB in my HTPC was 70 USD and is amazing and plenty. My main Windows desktop only has 100 GB used out of 640 (hdd obviously).
- frou_dh 16y agoMy laptop only has one hdd bay. It would be a wasteful to use SSD space for my media collection and big app installs, but the alternative of having an external hdd hanging from the laptop all the time would be a net step backwards as far as I'm concerned. 512 was kneejerk binary; 320 would do :-)
- barrkel 16y agoMy media collection is on my media server. That's got 4x1T+4x1.5T drives in ZFS RAIDZ: a little too much to fit on a laptop. Laptops can get away with ~80G, just about, for Windows 7, and probably less with other OSes. But probably something like the C300 (256G) would be a better choice.
- jodrellblank 16y agoCustomer's new laptop, a Toshiba with a Core i7, 3GB RAM (i.e. the new kind of qpath thing), manufacturer shipped SSD. Running XP, being installed in the middle of Windows Update and prompting for permission, so basically 4 cores, 3 GB, SSD, clean system, idle. I clicked Outlook. 5 seconds to get tot the startup wizard screen. I could hardly be more underwhelmed after all the SSD hype I've read. I've seen faster cheap office desktop computers.
- spicyj 16y agoThere are fast SSDs and slow SSDs. You probably got a slow one. The Crucial C300 and Intel X25-M are really fast.
- noonespecial 16y agoThe good part is holding the option key and getting a reasonable environment to choose a startup disk. My mac is the only computer I've ever had that can boot off a clone of my internal disk stored on a USB extrenal disk. This has saved my ass more than once. "Target disk mode" is also reasonably awesome.
- sudont 16y agoBack when I did TA tech teaching there were many, many student movie projects saved due to target disk mode. Too bad that FireWire is depreciated in favor of USB.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agois deprecated | has depreciated ?
- aberkowitz 16y agoDeprecated is past tense so either "was deprecated" or "has been deprecated" works. Can someone, more knowledgeable than I, confirm this?
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoI'm no English major by any stretch, they never teached us grammar at school ;0) My take: Deprecated is also used in computing to refer to the current status of a particular service or part (e.g. of a program or OS). "Parallel port printing is deprecated" means "Parallel port printing is 'no longer going to be supported going forward and likely to be removed completely'". Strictly yes it was deprecated as a completed action in the past but the status is that it is deprecated now.
- sudont 16y agoPresent tense indicates hope that Apple will come to their senses. As "It's currently depreciated, but will come back in full force." EDIT: Well, the proper from without using "be" is: Too bad Apple depreciated FireWire in favor of USB.
- teilo 16y agoEven current macs use EFI 1.1. UEFI 2.3 is the current version of the standard, and as yet no macs are even using 2.0 to my knowledge. That said, there is a huge difference between any version of EFI and BIOS boot times. But keep in mind, we are not talking about the time to boot the OS, but the time it takes for the OS to start booting. Think all the time wasted in your typical BIOS-based boot on hardware checks, post screens, etc.
- biturd 16y agoWhat are the changes in these newer versions of EFI? 1.1 to 2.3 is huge, what are we missing?