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How to know if my BIOS supports UEFI?

Just watched the Win8 keynote thing, and seemed like the fast boot times required something called UEFI(?). What is that? How do I know if I have it? And if I do have support for it, do I have to do something to enable it, or is it "already there" sort of?

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Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, see specifically Platforms using EFI/UEFI.

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This is the successor of the good old BIOS.

Many modern servers already have UEFI, there mostly resulting in longer boot-times. Mac-systems (with Intel-Processors) also rely on UEFI.

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