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vel0city • yesterday at 8:58 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Does anyone still use UEFI?

Yes. It's extremely common.

> If I start looking into the latest and greatest Qualcomm Nuvia ARM Windows laptops, does it use UEFI?

Yes, those use UEFI.

> Or regular BIOS?

Almost nothing widely produced today uses old "regular BIOS". Even those which seem to use "regular BIOS" are largely UEFI systems acting like a legacy BIOS. Even things like Apple MacBooks which don't use EFI use an Apple custom similar firmware concept far removed from legacy BIOS.


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Melatonic • today at 5:59 AM

What do you think will succeed UEFI ?

brcmthrowaway • today at 4:16 AM

UEFI engineer found!