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Swedes Show Intel Sandy Bridge Running BIOS-Successor UEFI
An anonymous reader writes "SweClockers.com has gotten it hands on a Intel Sandy Bridge motherboard running Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, the long awaited successor of age-old BIOS. Among the differences is a significantly more user-friendly interface, the ability to boot from drives larger than 2 TB and faster boot times. Check it out, on video, in Swedish." Here's an Google's translation of the article.
*facepalm* Is the concept of a joke something new to you?
You show significant ignorance in how Macs work. I suggest refraining from mistaking your presumably vast PC knowledge as though it's similarly applicable to the Mac.
On the Mac, you never, ever find yourself in a situation where access to equivalent of the BIOS would be helpful to troubleshoot Mac OS X boot problems. Ever. Situations where Mac OS X won't boot are very, very rare, and in those cases, all you have to do is boot from an OS X CD to begin troubleshooting.
On the PC, the BIOS settings program is fundamentally used to set motherboard options. Boot drive options, SATA/IDE modes, RAM settings, PnP, sleep, etc. On the Mac, these options are meaningless because Apple creates the hardware, so there's no reason to disable AHCI mode for SATA drives, you control sleep modes from OS X, and so on.
If you can come up with a scenario where BIOS-like access to EFI would be useful on Apple hardware running Mac OS X, I'm open to hearing them.
And, worse case, you can just use rEFIt, which is exactly what some people use to run Linux on their Macs.
Perhaps the person who changes bios settings to tweak them out is the same type of person who would soup up a car to get the most performance possible from them.
Or, get the performance that you should get in the first place if the person who picked the default settings for the BIOS was competent.
I would expect that Macs would be even worse about picking the safest defaults, based on the mantra of "it just works".