Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"?

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 11, 2013 @05:17AM from the in-light-of-recent-events dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What is the best/newest hardware without trusted computing (TC) / Trusted Platform Module(TPM)? I am currently running ancient 32-bit hardware and thinking about an upgrade to something x64 with USB3, SATA3 and >1 core on the CPU ... but don't want TC/TPM. I have no need to run anything like Blu Ray movie disks or Microsoft Windows that requires TC/TPM or the UEFI boot process. Is anybody else still trying to avoid TC/TPM? What have your experiences been? Any pointers?" Worth reading on this front, too: Richard Stallman on so-called Trusted Computing,.

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Re:get a mac. by amiga3D · 2013-08-11 09:05 · Score: 1, Troll

It's a tale of 2 macbooks. My early 2008 wont upgrade past Lion. My late 2008 macbook will upgrade to Mavericks. Both have Core2Duo 2.4ghz processors. There is no real reason that the early 2008 model can't run Mavericks but that is Apple for you. It's off to ebay for it while it still can run most modern software. In another year or two it'll be Mountain Lion or better for everything new. The latest version of Peppermint Four installed and runs fine on my Aspire One. It actually seems faster than Peppermint Three was.