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.
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.
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
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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