> I wonder if Apple is ok with this. They usually don't like someone's else software running on their machines. I think that it's true that they want to have a

> I wonder if Apple is ok with this. They usually don't like someone's else software running on their machines. I think that it's true that they want to have as much control over the experience as possible, but that is more from a perspective of being able to control the (visible parts of) user experience. I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't already knew/had an idea of what was going on with the ME and that there must be some way to disable it, but MacBooks don't receive the amount of attention required for them to care about this low-level detail, which 'doesn't affect' regular customers anyway.