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No, I am saying that much of what we now think of as the "x86 market" will be taken over by ARM. Cheap desktops and laptops are not going to stick with x86 forever, but there will still be demand for desktop and laptop form factors and there will still be demand for Windows.



Fedora’s Matthew Garrett explains his position very good. The "UEFI Forum", which controls the Standard, is made up of computing industry representatives including Microsoft, Apple, Intel, AMD, and a handful of computer manufacturers.

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html This a more technical perspective: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html

The day people start doing more than watching youtube videos with their ARM computers is certainly a possible future. Smartphones are becoming a stronger selling factor than the PC industry. We all agree that the future is mobile and everbody is betting on this future.

Although not a BIOS disadvantage per se, switching from EFI mode to BIOS mode requires re-installing your OS(es), or at least reconfiguring their boot loaders.




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