On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Matthew Szudzik <mszud...@andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 07:39:19PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > > Get a thinkpad, and replace the wireless card :) > > Maybe I'm paranoid, but I've been reluctant to get a new ThinkPad > because they all have Intel AMT nowadays. > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118302016430106 > > http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/architecture-guide-intel-active-management-technology/ > > And according to the following forum post, there's no way to disable it > > http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=62992 > > is there a list, some kind of a guide, for which processors have this? Or is it a case of (?) all current and future processors having this? Would it be better to go with AMD instead then in order to avoid this crap? -jf -- In the meantime, here is your PSA: "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
