[geeks] The Dog's Breakfast: Microsoft Windows Vista

[Mark]

On 6 May 2007, at 20:43, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Vista doesn't require DRM hardware

It requires DRM capable hardware to perform some functions, without  
the necessary hardware you cannot use these functions, or iof you do  
(in the case of HD Video) your experience will be significantly  
degraded.

> unlike Apple Intel hardware (which includes TPM hardware, IIRC)...

Incorrect. Apple ceased to include TPM modules in Intel Mac s  
starting with the Mac Pro (which is conveniently the one I bought),  
and subsequently including all models made thereafter. They stopped  
using it to 'key' OS X Tiger because it was ineffective as the  
methods it used were circumvented fairly early in the life of OS X  
10.4 Intel. Instead, OS X 10.4 x86 has a closed-source Kernel (unlike  
the PowerPC and Darwin versions) that works out if you are using a  
Mac some other way, and no-one knows how (which is just how they want  
it).

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