For pretty much all of my life, the BIOS of a motherboard has been the same old boring DOS-sytle coloring and controls. Arrow keys, enter, that’s pretty much it. The recent adoption of the EFI standard is changing that quite a bit and if you look at some of our recent motherboard reviews, you’ll notice that BIOS manipulation is now much more intuitive and graphical interesting.
Gigabyte sent over a link to a video demonstrating their latest enhancement to the BIOS known as "TouchBIOS". As the name implies, the interface has been tweaked for a touch screen though you can obviously also use a mouse to get the job done. This is a Windows application however, so keep that in mind – you aren’t actually able to use a touch screen when entering the BIOS. Applying the changes also requires a reboot, so there is no additional magic there.
So what do you guys think? Is this is a useful addition to the world of BIOS controls?
