RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
April 30, 2013 at 5:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2013 at 5:59 pm by Love.)
(April 30, 2013 at 4:52 pm)Love Wrote: I concede that I might be incorrect about the requirement of TPM hardware for Mac OS X. However, I am not entirely convinced since I don't think Wikipedia is an authoritative source (for example, it has not provided any authoritative citations for the claim that Apple has not used TPM since 2009). There is actually still an ongoing debate as to whether Apple machines still use the TPM, and, indeed, if the presence of such is vital to allow Mac OS X to function. I will research further because I want to get to the bottom of this.
Okay, after reading more on the subject, I now admit that I came to the incorrect conclusion about Mac OS's core requirement of TPM hardware. It seems a lot of people had the same misconception.
I think you misread one of my replies. I did not state that you claimed the hardware is specifically designed for Mac OS. I simply denied that Mac OS is designed specifically for the MacBook hardware, and I still maintain that Mac OS could work perfectly well on any laptop if Apple allowed this to be the case.
(April 30, 2013 at 5:10 pm)Tiberius Wrote: There really isn't. I work in the computer security industry; I understand what TPMs are and how they work (took a course on them back in university). If one of my computers had one, I'd know about it (and use it).
Fair enough. I have an MSc in IT and am presently a PhD Computer Science student; however, I have never actually studied TPMs.
