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They couldn't do that on intel because if they made it too draconian people would just install windows. Now people are locked in tight.
by perryizgr8 6y ago
They couldn't do that on intel because if they made it too draconian people would just install windows. Now people are locked in tight.
- spijdar 6y agoIntel Macs have never had typical BIOSes or standards compliant UEFI, to say nothing of their device drivers. Without Apple providing a HAL FLL for the windows executive and device drivers along with a special bootloader shim (the marketing guys call this package "Bootcamp"), Windows would not work on Intel Macs. Microsoft or some third party would have to reverse engineer the device drivers, and they're definitely not making that investment. Not to mention more basically that Apple has to sign the NT kernel for it to load on Macs without disabling the equivalent of SecureBoot.
- rsynnott 6y agoPeople can just install Linux here, via self-signed kernel, it appears. Apple could, obviously, prevent people from installing Windows on Intel Macs if it wanted to.