Intel's NUC - Next Unit of Computing

There's 64-bit ARM boards too, if you really need it (I don't).


ME might be useful for sysadmin, but that doesn't mean it needs to be shoved down everyone's throat. My PC doesn't need it, and I don't want it.


You can buy ARM boards that don't require non-free firmware to boot, and without jumping through hoops and taking the risk of bricking your system with trannyboot.

Then they should give out the source code to all their firmware and also the method that cianiggers use to flip the bit that turnss off ME on their systems. Funny thing how they don't want to eat the dogfood they impose on everyone else, isn't it?

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Yeah it really sucks that one tiny piece of the system is proprietary when the entire rest of the massive other components are also proprietary. You guys flip out about the weirdest shit.

The other hardware doesn't run with such high priority that the OS itself can't contain it. Well except for some thing that use DMA, like USB 3. But you can easily avoid using that hardware, whereas you can't avoid using the CPU.

From what I can see they use components which have open source drivers.

Not an argument. If somehow military and spooks can disable it (at least since the HAP bit is present), why not disable it too on machines destined for mainstream (i.e. not business/corporate where AMT might actually be used) sale? Clearly the motivation is not a business one.

The military and top secret government agencies pay extra money to get custom ordered products. You too can make custom orders directly from Intel if you're planning to buy millions of dollars of CPU from them.

more like /g/ poster

Intel already showed themselves to be conniving, lying bastards who make the most buggy hardware in existence. Nobody halfway sane is going to want to pay them even one red cent. In fact, they should be refunding everyone the cost of the chips they bought. What's really needed is a major class action lawsuit that puts them out of business once and for all. Then we can kill the shitty x86 disaster of an architecture and move on finally.

Bullshit. The multi billion transistor CPU can do whatever the fuck it wants and you have no way of auditing it. The CPU is not the management engine.