This won't come as a big surprise to any conspiracy theorists that have been suspicious of Apple's deal with Intel from the start, but it looks like
Apple will be using Trusted Computing in
MacTel boxes. The hardware-based DRM system can be used for a lot of things, but one likely application will be for Apple to bind the Intel version of OSX to specific hardware, ensuring that you won't be able to pick up a copy and, say, run it on your Dell. While some may grouse about this, using a chip to lock the OS is nothing new for Apple; the company's "old world" Macs used ROM-based firmware to boot, keeping the MacOS from running on unsupported boxes.
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Subscribe to commentsJos?leAug 3rd 2005 10:27AM
I thought that the OS itself wasn't using DRM...Rosetta, the program that basically translates the native Darwin apps to run on the X86 platform was using hardware DRM.
Also, it's been rumoured that this was only going to be used on the Dev boxes only, a lot of people have said that hardware DRM would be too hard to sustain on an already limited access platform (at least compared to *nix and Windows.)