Intel VPRO or No VPRO?

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what is the general recommendations of Qubes Community?

@thinkpadp1

Using community recommends thread is not really a good place to go unless you are trying to be cheap and save money and don’t mind super old tech.

Maybe @Sven will answer. I be cheap (enjoy hobo pillows)

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Intel vPro - What it can do, what it *can't* do, and what it means for your future hardware choices

Hard to say, but the Wikipedia article says that AMT doesn’t make the CPU vPro, VT-d/x, TXT, and AMT are all vPro technology, including all the security features. I don’t think it’s impossible that none of the CPU features are needed for AMT, and that it can run on any version of IME as long as you have a chipset that supports AMT. My guess would be that the chipset and not the CPU decides if you can use AMT, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they used the CPU ID as a “license key” to make su…

Think renehoj right when wrote

I don’t think it’s impossible that none of the CPU features are needed for AMT, and that it can run on any version of IME as long as you have a chipset that supports AMT. My guess would be that the chipset and not the CPU decides if you can use AMT

Edit: found and added pillow link