Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Jan 2009 18:34 UTC, submitted by alcibiades
MacInTouch reviews the EFI-X kit, a pre-assembled computer equipped with the EFI-X module which allows you to boot Mac OS X on a non-Apple machine without having to resort to hacks. They conclude: "The EFI-X kit offers the ability to run Mac OS X Leopard without hacks, to run Windows without special Boot Camp drivers, and to run nearly any other personal computer operating system from Linux to Solaris to OpenVMS! It's not quite the seamless experience of Apple's Mac computers, but it comes darn close. Its quad-core 3.82-GHz Core 2 Quad, combined with a fast Nvidia 8800 GT video card and 10,000-RPM Western Digital Velociraptor hard drive, leaves even today's quad-core Mac Pro in the dust. For anyone but scientific and engineering users, the EFI-X kit offers even more real-world performance than Apple's high-end, eight-core Mac Pro costing over twice as much."
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RE[2]: Its an excellent review, questions though
by DittoBox on Tue 6th Jan 2009 19:05
in reply to "RE: Its an excellent review, questions though"
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The main point of this device is arguably the ability to install Mac OS X without using sharpened knitting needles and some kind of Voodoo doppleganger of your computer. To that end most reviews won't feature obscure features like Linux EFI compatibility. (Less than 10% of PC users install OS X, few of those will use EFI-X, and even fewer of those will install Linux using EFI-X)
That said it would be nice to know how well it works with Linux, what distros or more specifically what kernel configurations are required.
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I find this review somewhat lacking details. Except for short sentence claiming EFI-X run Linux, there is no further comments about which Linux they tested in EFI mode. Or how booting from GPT partitions with Linux works.