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- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18However, this method may not include the actual "surfing the internet" part of the desired activity.
- blatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Awesome! No details whatsoever!
- mobius20, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Wow - talk about blowing a cool feature out of porportion.
This feature would make the lives of corporate desktop support infinitely easier.
For home users, this feature will certainly be easily disabled (or even likely disabled by default, as WOL and PXE boot usually are). I'd be shocked if it wasn't. - nashif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.intel.com/technology/manage/iamt/
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http://www.intel.com/vpro/index.htm - Kratos76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another time, I was aroused by my laptop in the night... ah, but tha'ts another story entirely.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.sun.com/servers/alom.html
The world didn't end when sun rolled the same feature out, nor did anyone raise a stink about it. - Kratos76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was once roused by my laptop being reconfigured in the night. It was not a pretty sight. All the lights were off and I stubbed my toe on the coffee table.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Keeping wireless active is one of the bigger battery drains on a laptop. Running this while your laptop is off would be the stupidest idea possible.
As such, I'm pretty sure the "wake up to someone wirelessly reconfiguring your laptop" scenario is completely and utterly absurd. - Tuscanspeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If you don't like it. Simply use AMD. At least until they counter with their own version of the stuff.
- mzwaterski, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7How is this bad? The point is that a person managing a large network of computers will have the ability to monitor systems and remotely repair them. FUD.
- altjeringa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Uh, Don't we call this "Lights Out managment"? How is it new technlogy? The only thing new here is that Intel is finally catching up, will likely screw up, and then widely distribute something Sun has been doing for many years.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Until Macbooks carry the same chip in six months... seriously fanboy, shut up.
- ianfoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Says the "article": "You could potentially be woken up in the middle of the night by the sounds of somebody completely reconfiguring your laptop."
What, pray tell, are the sounds of a laptop being completely reconfigured? I must really be unaware of the potential cacophony, having never been roused from a slumber by the din of a computer being reconfigured. - kingygk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This could be a great reason to switch over to a Macbook Pro.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I sleep under the desk at work, and my corporate admin love to reconfigure my laptop in the middle of the night. Wait, what?
- bdpf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Never liked Intel that much, pricey! The only one I have is down after a hard drive reformat, will not boot even with a good OS installed,,,,, Ah that's an other matter.
AMD has been my choice for years because of cost, this is just an other reason not to buy Intel. This sounds like a ripe, I mean stinking to high heaven, security back door hole. I have been poled in the rear to many times by our nice corporate world to trust them.....
I don't know about how Sun did this, since I have not switched to a Linux OS yet. Soon it will happen and I have to remember to ask about this. hahah Memory is shot working for corporate. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm not sure I'd make any judgments about either the cool factor or convenience of this "feature" until it's time tested. Because, to me, it sounds like a wide open back door in every PC with those chips in them. Almost like the yellow dots your printer spits out so prints can be traced.
It'll get out, it'll be compromised. Count on it. And, the best part, your computer doesn't even have to be turned on! ROFL!
The age old conflict between security and convenience. Not locking your doors makes it easy for your house cleaner to get in and clean the house but that doesn't make it a good idea. - Meloman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm okay with this, as long as they offer a version of their technologies without AMT built-in. If they force everyone to have this kind of technology then there is a problem. I just don't trust large corporations having so much control over a person's private information. This is probably great for work, because the computer belongs to the company not the individual, but for home use -- that another matter.
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ive never heard of AMT, trusted execution technology OR la grande. Sounds like euphemisms for palladium or TPM. When we want to remotely fix a pc we simply use microsoft systems management server or we use DUST to audit the patches. Both are used remotely. That and Wake on Lan make this "technology" completely unnecessary.
- dusanmal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0No comparison to Sun situation. This feature on Sun machines (which are allways non-portable and mostly servers) makes sense. Adding wireless to this "feature" and providing it in laptops is sensles and dangerous.
- valkyries, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3The safest way to surf the internet is not to even connect. Keeps your computer safer then any AV can do..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1http://lafkon.net/tc/
- intekra, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I meant that in a good, constructive sort of way...
- intekra, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2I REALLY really can't wait for this! It will be quite useful, and FUN.
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