{"id":1778,"date":"2006-01-27T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1661"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:12:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:12:54","slug":"re-miscellaneous-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/27\/re-miscellaneous-tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Miscellaneous tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1646#1646\">Some posts ago<\/a>, I mentioned a white paper on FW800; now James Wiebe has <a href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1646#1646\">written an update<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>f you are making storage decisions based on rollouts of FireWire 800 technology, your purchasing priorities are sadly out of order. Apple was the only champion of FireWire 800; a task it seemed to take reluctantly. Now, Apple is making marketplace moves that are absolving itself of FireWire 800.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, there&#8217;s no news on progress to make the new Intel iMacs boot anything else. There&#8217;s even <a href=\"http:\/\/winxponmac.com\/\">a reward<\/a> posted; I&#8217;ll be very surprised if someone collects it anytime soon (or even, at all). As the <a href=\"http:\/\/appleintelfaq.com\/\">Apple\/Intel FAQ<\/a> notes, some people have suceeded in rendering their iMac unbootable by trying to change the EFI parameters. As that page also notes, it appears &#8211; despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/01\/16\/intel_core_duo_vt\/\">some reports to the contrary<\/a> &#8211; that the Core Duos Apple is using <em>do<\/em> report the VMX flag, which stands for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/technology\/computing\/vptech\/\">Intel&#8217;s virtualization technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/geek.com\/news\/geeknews\/2006Jan\/bch20060123034350.htm\">somewhat alarmist article<\/a> out, regarding the Core Duo&#8217;s current 34 erratas, only one of which is slated to be fixed in subsequent production runs. Of course the number of such erratas is proportional to a chip&#8217;s complexity; both PowerPCs and older Intel chips have comparable numbers. I&#8217;ve looked over the list and couldn&#8217;t find anything immediately alarming, as nearly all of them have a software workaround and\/or are not revelant to user code. Also, some of these seem to be inherited (and never fixed) issues from older Intel designs, meaning they&#8217;re considered harmless. All in all, you shouldn&#8217;t worry about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some posts ago, I mentioned a white paper on FW800; now James Wiebe has written an update: f you are making storage decisions based on rollouts of FireWire 800 technology, your purchasing priorities are sadly out of order. Apple was the only champion of FireWire 800; a task it seemed to take reluctantly. Now, Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[17,23],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-cpu","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-sG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}