Personally I'd love to have a dev Chromebook.
The software stack running on it is second to none.
Even the BIOS is light-years ahead any Windows/Linux box. As for OSX I'm not familiar with the boot process.
The software stack running on it is second to none.
Even the BIOS is light-years ahead any Windows/Linux box. As for OSX I'm not familiar with the boot process.
Can you elaborate on that? I thought ChromeOS was just a stripped down Linux with just enough to run Chrome and whatever other Google stuff they have on it.
2) Some tablets use a 32-bit UEFI while supporting a 64-bit operating system. Nobody supports that. You're stuck with Windows again.
3) Can you turn on Wake On Lan features on the desktop? I played with geoproximity on my phone to send wake up packets when I got within 200m of home.
4) Can you disable Intel's Trusted Platform on your computer? Many people don't trust having an undocumented system in total control of their computer.
Basically a mix of UEFI and their proprietary SMC controller on the system board.
The SMC is actually kind of nice to have since it means that the actual boot sector is more sandboxed.
Can you elaborate on this? How does the boot sector sandboxing work exactly?
It's primary purpose is largely DRM, but I'm guessing it has to store a large portion of boot information on the chip as to prevent a Mac drive from booting in a standard x86 tower.
There wasn't much in the wikipedia link about that.
Also the primary purpose of an SMC is not DRM, but battery, fans, power management etc.