LaGrande Apple
p2pnet.net News:- “In the late 1990s, Apple Computer Inc. ran TV ads mocking the Intel Corp. chips in rival Windows-based PCs,” says the Associated Press in an Apple jilts IBM follow-up, going on:
“The Pentium II glued to a snail and the toasted bunny suit were supposed to suggest that Apple’s Macintosh computers were simply faster.”
The move “could lead to Macs that are both more competitive and more compatible with Windows”.
Well, Yes.
“It could even open the Mac to software titles now available only to Windows users.”
It could indeed.
But as a p2pnet reader points out, further down the article is this:
“Apple could lose control of its operating system when it starts using next year the same hardware that powers the Windows world.
“That’s where the new technologies come into play and why Apple is so willing to make a move.
“Intel has been touting a hardware-based security plan called LaGrande Technology as a way to keep systems secure by locking data with a key that’s embedded in a hardware chip.
“But LaGrande also could be used to ensure that certain software only runs on permitted machines, such as Mac OS X only running on systems built by Apple.
"You can tie the serial number of the software with the hardware ID, and say these things go together and shall never be separate,’ said Roger Kay, an analyst at IDC.”
(Thanks, John Paul)
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Associated Press – Apple Chip Switch Opens New World for Macs June 10, 2005
June 11th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
jeesh, next they’ll be telling me that my peanut butter can only go with a certain mfg’s jam…talk about taking away consumer choices with items they’ve purchased and supposedly own…
TT
June 11th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
I brought up the idea at another forum that the Trusted Computing would be used by software makers. That the idea it was user implemented as a choice was only tempory. At the time they foo-fooed and said I didn’t understand Trusted Computing and the new technology. My reply was that the software makers would at some point remove that choice from the user, making it a requirement that to run the software the Trusted Computing would have to be enabled.
Here is precisely that scenerio. Look in the future for not only OS makers but the software makers to do the same thing. The chip is in most of the newest motherboards that are coming out. You may look to have a locked down computer as your newest, latest greatest. For myself, I am starting to make the move to linux. Microsucks and Wormy-Apple can keep their OS’s as soon it won’t be worth having. Microsucks is terrible about the upgrade game. You know, keep up with the Jones’s in business. There have not been that many OS upgrades by Microsucks out there that were really worth the time and money it took to put it in the computer. Their security still sucks on the OS. Once hackers and the like figure a work around to get the chip to accept their programming, it will be worse than ever. It may take time to do the work around but rest assured they will do so.
The only loser here will be the user that buys the computers with this lock down in it. Personally, I don’t want it. Linux has given a new lease on life to many of the older outmoded computers. Mine should be no different in that aspect even if it isn’t that old.
I’m getting out of the rat race of Microsucks.
June 11th, 2005 at 7:36 pm
… but the future is not even that bright…
You think only intel will have this? AMD is allready doing it… (check slashdot “intel claims no DRM” thread http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/05/1833241&tid=155 )
Some day the TC option will be turned on without an option of turning it off and only authorized OS could be installed…
yeah you’ll allways be able to install linux on computer you have now, but some day this machine will simply die. What then?
More TC info here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
And all of this mostly because of RIAA & MPAA – they don’t want to go into full-blown digital distribution until our (customer’s) computers are all locked and secured… and of course BSA & FBI love it too