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There's been a plenty of Macs with vPRO CPUs. Unless Apple is getting custom CPUs or CPU firmware then it would seem that Macs do have AMT. No? Enabling it is
by ryanlol 10y ago
There's been a plenty of Macs with vPRO CPUs. Unless Apple is getting custom CPUs or CPU firmware then it would seem that Macs do have AMT. No?
Enabling it is tremendously difficult though AFAIK.
- wmf 10y agovPro isn't a CPU, it's a particular combination of CPU, PCH (southbridge), Intel NIC/WiFi, and AMT firmware. There's no evidence that Macs have AMT or vPro.
- apaprocki 10y agoWell, Intel does a particularly bad job of explaining whether this exists. My MBP CPU is a Core(TM) i7-4850HQ, and Intel's ark site says it has vPro.
- wmf 10y agoYou're right about that. Intel's product lineup is a huge mishmash of optional features that no one understands and now it's going to bite them. (But not really, because what else are you going to buy? A Ryzen laptop?)
- tptacek 10y agoIt has to have the ME silicon and the AMT enabled firmware. According to Matthew Garrett, who I'd generally trust on this stuff, Apple hasn't ever shipped AMT-enabled firmware.
- wtallis 10y agoIt's nice to see that for once it's a good thing that Apple hardly ever ships standard firmware and instead usually leaves out all the components and features they don't plan to use.