geek.com — DeviceVM, the makers of Splashtop, just made a big announcement though. Their technology will no longer be restricted to the top-shelf motherboards and will see a much wider release. At first it will be featured on Asus? P5Q (high-efficiency design, Intel P45 chipset) family of motherboards, starting with the P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe....
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Closed AccountMay 15, 2008
A few months back my wireless card stopped working...with no internet connection I had no way of downloading the Windows drivers I needed to reinstall...I was aved by a live linux CD and USB drive. The wireless card worked in linux and I was able to quickly access support and get the proper drivers. Now if I didn't have a live CD this would be very useful and I wouldn't have to carry my desktop all the way to the part of the house with a wired connection.
Closed AccountMay 15, 2008
Prepare to be dis-assimilated....
truck87bpMay 15, 2008
Yes, Linux is taking over but this sounds like the way to lock in The Trusted Computing Platform no matter what OS you access the internet with. All is tied to the chip and the IP and the owner. The Neocons win. Other than that, this is truly fabulous. Any system builder can allow the buyer to choose what OS will be installed on the computer and it doesn't have to be Microsoft. MoBo manufactures should supply 3 Flavors of Linux Live CD's with the board also just because its free.
rasmasyeanMay 15, 2008
Vista Standby comes on like 5 seconds...I'm not sure what the difference between this is. It's very low power.
fangorMay 18, 2008
Anyone else concerned with a rom chip (which you have no option to remove or disable) sitting on your motherboard with the ability to access your network device? Sounds a whole lot like "trusted" computing to me. If this becomes popular, what is to stop vendors from including software that will monitor activity and report it (possibly before you even boot to your OS)? I would have to see circuit diagrams and code, making absolutely sure that no hard drive access is possible before I would even consider putting such a thing in one of my computers.
wmt9May 18, 2008
if the hard drive is attached to the motherboard why could you not interact with it?