Apple to use stock Intel chipsets

MacfixIt is reporting that Intel sources have confirmed Apple will use stock CPUs and chipsets in x86 Macs. According to an unnamed representative, Intel will not have to retool its production lines to fill an Apple orders. This certainly bolsters the case for x86 Macs being able to dual boot Windows and stock Linux kernels. The followup question, of course, is "then how do they keep people from running the OS on other hardware?" vnunet has some disturbing speculation on that front, and it involves TCM. Nothing new there, and we don't know anything yet, but there are limited options when it comes to breaking hardware for your competitors without ruining it for yourself and it looks the obvious choice, custom core components, just got ruled out. Pardon me if my spidey sense is tingling. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it's bad enough when my software spies on my, I don't need my hardware getting in on the action.