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Trusted Computer another first for Apple?


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Can anyone imagine Steve Jobs giving one of his famous presentations explaining Apple's adoption of Trusted Computing? Would you be convinced? Why are Apple fans (of which I'm one) so uninterested in Apple adopting this technology?

 

For example what features of Trusted Computing does the chipset in MacBookPro support and how could they be utilized in future versions of OSX? Which Trusted Computing features does the current X86 port of OSX already use?

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I've noticed this almost complete lack of interest too. I'd certainly be interested to know what is in the new macs (apart from the obvious stuff that is advertised everywhere). It's coming in behind the DRM stuff (in this case with the protection of the OS), and it seems that this has obscured the very serious issue that TC has been introduced quietly on the second-biggest consumer platform.

 

I know some manufacturers (IBM at least) have sold units with TCM in them but windows doesn't yet support this (as far as we know...) so yes, it looks like it is another first for Apple!

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Indeed IBM has been doing it the longest: "Over 16 million IBM trusted clients have been shipped as of June 25, 2004". But nowadays there are plenty of manufacturers of TC related hardware: chipsets, processors, motherboards, desktops, laptops, servers etc. Here's a list of the currect manufacturers and products - they include: Intel, Dell, IBM, Fujitsu, Siemens, Sony, Gateway, Toshiba, Samsung...

 

However the point is, while there are plenty of PC's with TCP hardware wayting for Windows Vista, Apple was the first to ship a complete TC system - kind of ironic and sad when you think of the heralding of the first mac was done with the 1984 ad - and now the first Apple product for a long time using the name Macintosh a total sellout to the big brother cause...

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