I'm not following...if it's a BIOS issue, why would installing Win7 solve it?
MS does support EFI but the advantage with Apple is they create the OS and the hardware, this is a huge advantage to Apple. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) < mark.sny...@ngc.com> wrote: > Tom, I was happy to read that OS X does not have this issue > (accommodates sectors larger than 512 bytes). The article explained > this as a BIOS issue in Windows and said Vista, W7 have work-around > fixes. MS has not endorsed replacing BIOS with EFI, have they? > > Thank you, > Mark Snyder > -----Original Message----- > > Long article at Ars about how M$ failed to engineer a smooth > transition for its customers to new hard drive technologies. Changes > are necessary to take us to higher hard drive capacities. Apple took > care of this many years ago so changes will be no big deal. Meanwhile > XP users will take a big performance hit. I really doubt that M$ will > provide any fix at all. After all leaving XP users high and dry will > just be another money maker for M$. > > Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users > http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/why-new-hard-disks-might-n > ot-be-much-fun-for-xp-users.ars<http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/why-new-hard-disks-might-n%0Aot-be-much-fun-for-xp-users.ars> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
