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Imaging MacBooks: Understanding MBR, APM, & GPT

I introduced an experimental project to replace a fleet of PC laptops with MacBooks in Do MacBooks Make Business Sense as PC Laptops? It turns out that MacBooks do make pretty decent Windows laptops at a good price. The fatal flaw I ran into wasn’t a limitation in the MacBook however; it related to the partition map used in Intel’s new EFI firmware.

The following information applies to all of Apple’s Intel based Macs, and is important in understanding the issues involved with using BootCamp, or in moving drives between PCs and Intel Macs. It also helps to explain why Apple beat all the other PC makers in widely releasing EFI based computers.
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Contributed by: Daniel Eran, RoughlyDrafted


The following information applies to all of Apple’s Intel based Macs, and is important in understanding the issues involved with using BootCamp, or in moving drives between PCs and Intel Macs. It also helps to explain why Apple beat all the other PC makers in widely releasing EFI based computers.
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Contributed by: Daniel Eran, RoughlyDrafted

By Jason O'Grady

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