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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:29:39 -0600
From:      Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>
Subject:   Re: Partitioning 1T HDD
Message-ID:  <20210321232939.12364891ad62028980a2277b@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YFgKFN17F%2BkBoeWI@llamedos.localdomain>
References:  <20210319102649.2bace327e17eca8602877618@gmail.com> <YFgKFN17F%2BkBoeWI@llamedos.localdomain>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 03:08:04 +0000
Ken Moffat via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
wrote:

[snip]

Much obliged for the clarification of those terms!

> No idea how old your laptop is, but for non-M$ the only reason for
> enabling UEFI is probably to update the UEFI firmware - for *very*
> recent ryzens the forthcoming AGESA fixes for usb issues on zen2
> and zen3 probably need UEFI to install it (and perhaps M$,
> depending on the manufacturer).  For older systems, no obvious
> reason to use UEFI.

Machine:   
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: N53SN v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: N53SN v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: N53SN.209 date: 01/10/2012 
Memory: RAM: total: 11.64 GiB used: 337.4 MiB (2.8%) 
 
CPU:       
Topology: Quad Core
model: Intel Core i7-2630QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: 
Sandy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 2F 
L2 cache: 6144 KiB bogomips: 31929 
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/2900 MHz 
Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 2719 3: 816 4: 2620 5: 2635 6: 2797 
7: 1178 8: 2600

It's not brand new, but it's not a dog. :)  Thanks again!
-- 
Duke
-- 
Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com>



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