On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 23:29 +0200, arc wrote:
- my notebook has a tc chip inside
I bought a lenovo thinkpad r60 9456-HTG
IBM (and then Lenovo) Thinkpads have shipped with this chip for a long time.
They provide free software drivers and document it; you can use it to protect the contents of your hard drive, or data from other users of the OS, etc.:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpmdd
I wouldn't say it's a bad thing to have; they're useful devices.
Cheers,
Alex.