Note 10.X Core
Itanium
Can Mac OS X be installed natively on itanium EFI systems? Since both OS X and itanium uses EFI.
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- @13lazing Published 2010-03-31
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Can Mac OS X be installed natively on itanium EFI systems? Since both OS X and itanium uses EFI.
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I doubt it. The Itanium 64-bit CPU architecture is entirely different from the x86-64 CPU architecture used by the CPUs Apple uses in its systems. It's just barely conceivable that Itanium could run a purely 32-bit version of OS X, but this seems like a stretch to me.