[PD] IntelMacs & PD/GEM

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Best to take this off list, but I thought the 945 chip series was  
incompatible with TPM support, although some of the other hardware  
elements would be compatible.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/imac-coreduo.ars says

from looking at pictures of the chips, we were able to do some  
deduction from the chip numbers. The northbridge chip looks to be an  
82945GM, which identifies it as the Mobile Intel 945GM Express  
chipset. According to the S-Spec number (SL8Z2), it's a standard  
Intel chipset and therefore not an Apple-specific variant. The  
southbridge appears to be an ICH7-M, which has support for a Trusted  
Computing module.

and http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/12/how_different_are_the_new_intel- 
based_macs/ says

If it is the 945 that's running the Macs, this means that TPM won't  
play a role in 32-bit iMac and MacBook Pro architecture, at least for  
the next six months or so.

Could you post me a link to the source which contradicts this. It  
would be handy to track.

I don't trust Trusted Computing either although I may just be hungry  
enough for an Intel Mac to compromise.

Cefn
http://cefn.com/curiosity/

On 17 Jan 2006, at 17:38, Malte Steiner wrote:

> Keep in mind, that the Macintels have the TCP (Trusted Computing  
> Platform) chip which is activated and can't be switched off. Again  
> Apple is a first with it (implementing and using the chip in the  
> os) and they lost me as an customer.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malte
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