Tag: EFI

Apple has issued a software update that targets the EFI on the new MacBook Air laptops to fix some issues that it has never publicly acknowledged, but which have been widely reported. The problem caused MacBook Air notebooks to boot or resume from sleep into a black screen or become unresponsive. There have also been reports of horizontal lines sometimes appearing on the display or the display ...

I come back from a walk in the park with my son, and what do I find? Apple has released Boot Camp, a tool for installing Windows XP on Macs. Sure, someone else beat them to the punch, but this is highly unusual for two reasons. One, Apple almost never releases a public beta (at least, not for free, as in OS X). Two, this is pretty much saying, "we know you still need Windows for stuff." ...

When they said "shortly" I didn't realize just how shortly. narf2006's $13,000 solution for booting Windows XP on your Intel Mac is available right now, in the form of a 777kb zip file. In order to accomplish the feat you'll need a PC on which you'll create a custom slipstreamed XP install disc. In case it's not obvious, this is not for the faint of heart, but the distribution contains ...