I suspect they're doing this because game consoles are eye-wateringly expensive and younger folk tend to have a lot of hand-me-down computers/laptops/'machines'.
We have a couple HP Z440 workstations that got taken out of use due to TPM 1.2. Turns out there is an upgrade path to TPM 2.0 by downgrading the firmware, using a tool to activate TPM 2.0, then updating the firmware. I'm plenty technical enough to do that but I'm sure a lot of end users that got these as hand-me-downs and after business inventory refreshes aren't.
fTPM support can be hit or miss as well I've found. My last gaming machine had fTPM but it basically didn't work in Linux for one reason or another (likely something ACPI related). Granted I never bothered to update the UEFI firmware on it either so it might've had some bug that was fixed in a newer revision.
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u/fat_kaiju 16h ago
I suspect they're doing this because game consoles are eye-wateringly expensive and younger folk tend to have a lot of hand-me-down computers/laptops/'machines'.