UEFI laptops

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Mon Feb 11 23:16:21 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 07:22:54PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>    On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> 
>      I think we need a tester with a UEFI laptop to ensure our images work
>      on machines iwth this new firmware.  Anyone know machines with this?
>      The only one I know that has it is the Asus Zenbook UX31A but that's
>      -L-1500 so possibly not the best use of our money.
> 
>    The Lenovo G580 (-L- 390) is also a UEFI laptop. But I suspect I am
>    missing something and you mean something else by "UEFI laptop" ?
>    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-G580-15-6-inch-Laptop-Bronze/dp/B009RGB5I4

Ooh that looks interesting, what makes you think it uses UEFI.  What do you think I mean by UEFI laptop?  It's the new firmware to replace BIOS with evil DRM.

Jonathan



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