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Nate Amsden

I used to be excited about AMT

I remember being told about it in about 2005, read a doc from the server vendor, sounded really nice (far better than the IPMI and serial port stuff we had at the time anyway, though not as good as HP iLO or (modern) Dell DRAC) at least for servers. Never managed to see it appear in any servers I have had. My last couple of laptops at least have AMT options though without more software it doesn't seem to do anything (was sort of expecting an iLO like experience, be able to connect to a web server on the management processor etc). I guess it was geared more towards corporate desktops these days.

Dug up my email from early 2006, the board the vendor was talking about was the Intel SE7230NH1LX, which was a Pentium D board, looking online I don't see a reference to AMT with that board, maybe it was an add on option though.

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