Nothing special to it.

Go to insanelymac.com and read up on other, cheaper, faster ways (considering you need to have EFI-X shipped to you!), to boot a retail OS X disc.

I’m curious for editing film/ video on one of these systems. Any glitches with software, any glitches with hardware, any glitches with firewire 400 or firewire 800 ports or memory card readers?

Thanks for the info

‘Stis

I think that the solution is great, but Mr John Warwick comments are very interesting and ithink that you must not reply him trying to make him appear as a “what are you doing here guy”.

Good Review, not completly honest but good.

Thanks

1. First off, I run a mixed network of Windows and Mac machines at home. So I use SMB and AFB protocols. When I am on the EFiX built machine and try and log on either one of these types of networked machines, there is a 2-3 second delay before the machine is connected in finder. Not a big deal, but something I did not notice.
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2. In my communications with Davide Rutigliano, the CEO of Art Studios Entertainment, he mentioned that this is a known issue and is going to be addressed shortly in a firmware update. Plus I am using a Gigabyte Motherboard that is in the testing stage for their Hardware certification, so that may be the issue with the networking problem.
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3. That question, you would have to take up with the folks at EFiX, Davide mentioned that as a short term solution, I could use the GA311. I assume it may be something in the EFI code. I am just guessing about that. The forums (http://forum.efi-x.com/viewforum.php?f=1) over at the EFI website is full of helpful folks who could offer you more detailed answers about this product and any further questions you may have.

Regarding this paragraph in your review:

“Using the EFiX built PC was indistinguishable from an Apple Mac and worked almost flawlessly. The only thing I did notice is sometimes when connecting to other machines on my network, there was a few second delay before the other machines are recognized. That issue is being addressed, but can be easily corrected by installing a cheap PCI gigabit card such as the Netgear GA311.”

Would you mind explaining the following points:

1. “connecting to other machines on my network” — what do you mean by this? Are you using AFP or SMB (file-sharing protocols), or are you doing something else, like `ssh` or starting Mail.app?

2. “That issue is being addressed” — who is addressing this? The manufacturers of EFi-X? Someone else?

3. Why does a cheap PCI gigabit card resolve this problem? Is this a link-layer (network-card-, Ethernet-wire-, etc. level) problem? Or is it something else entirely?

Your overall review is commendably thorough, but for this particular paragraph, I would appreciate as much technical clarification as you would mind providing. Thank you.