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did you even to read the page that you linked to?
sheesh!! here's some excerpts...

It's simple: it is not clear whether the newMacs with the Intel chip inside that are now on sale do have a TPM chip installed in them or not. And I am not likely to buy a Mac (indeed, I would not even buy a toaster) if it contains a spy chip whose operations I cannot control.

The function of the TPM chip in the developers? PCs was to avoid that the custom-built Mac OS X could be installed on non-Apple computers. That solution did not really work as expected, but this is another story. What really matters is to determine whether available production Macs available now in the stores have this contested chip or not.

and from a readers reply...

What I find most disturbing about this article is how myopic it is. I have been following the TPM since its inception and even broke IBM's early version wide open (>5 years ago) while employed with a large F100 company. I frankly don't care about the entertainment industry as they are already learning that DRM doesn't work in the marketplace. However large enterprises are another story entirely. F1000 companies that are outsourcing or creating strategic alliances NEED TPM to protect the intellectual property they've created. Additionally TPM helps to minimize privacy data breaches. TPM is NOT the wonder drug but a powerful anti-piracy device nonetheless. Oh and BTW if you buy a computer with a TPM chip the software is free from the PC manufacturer, you simply need to load and configure.

do you have any links that support you're, "a drm chip in every mac"?

gnu/linux...giving choice to the neX(11)t generation.
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