On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> Will the new machines still boot with openfirmware?
>>
>
> AFAICT, no. They appear to be more or less bog-standard PCs (even the
> developer SDK) and a contact of mine pointed to a Apple internal memo
> saying Open Firmware is dead in the new line. I think this is even
> documented in the WWDC SDK kit, if anyone here has ADC credentials.
>
> This means it will be very interesting to see how they keep grubby
> little hands out of the OS. Somewhere, some bright whippersnapper will
> figure out a way to hoodwink OS X to boot on non-official hardware.
>
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It's called Pentium D (Palladium/NGSCB) integrated DRM on a chip.   
Remember that Steve wants all the developer boxes back when people  
are done with them... they're "not a product".

Andrew