Intel Plans to End Legacy BIOS Support by 2020

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[PrimeDirective64]

brain cant process every single tech talk...but this entry:

"By all means, the new UEFI standard is superior to the old BIOS. It provides faster boot-up speeds, improved security, expanded configuration options, and a universal architecture to support various hardware architectures." thats a good thing right?

[GuiltySpark]

(11-28-2017, 09:09 AM)PrimeDirective64 Wrote:  brain cant process every single tech talk...but this entry:

"By all means, the new UEFI standard is superior to the old BIOS. It provides faster boot-up speeds, improved security, expanded configuration options, and a universal architecture to support various hardware architectures." thats a good thing right?

Well, let's break it down because for me certain elements don't make sense:

"By all means, the new UEFI standard is superior to the old BIOS."

This is true. Plain and simple.

"It provides faster boot-up speeds"

Errm...., depends how they're measuring it. We'll come back to that.

"improved security"

True, however, it is more confusing due to the multiple levels it uses (possibly more to go wrong)

"expanded configuration options"

True.

"and a universal architecture to support various hardware architectures."

Interesting choice of words let's think about that for a second, a universal architecture to support various hardware architectures. and yet they're ending Legacy support!? That basically means all your legacy equipment will soon be phased out completely, no backwards compatibility, and yet a universal architecture is to be created which only supports newer UEFI hardware architecture, where's the universal come into it?
If your body supports many different food types but all you're offered is beans, that's not a universal support.

"It provides faster boot-up speeds"

Let's come back to this now....
In terms of measuring the boot up speeds of a BIOS you're essentially measuring POST times after which the 'handover' begins.
If, however, they're talking in terms of Power-On to Desktop then the time factor becomes irrelevant from one OS to another so the speed is null.

[Timster]

WOW break it down GS........

This is meaningless as the legacy BIOS will be phased out regardless due to age. If they claim end of support by 2020 that is really meaningless also as the hardware will have already started to be phased out. Just like all other legacy hardware eventually will have to be replaced.