>when it comes to Pluton, or the AMD and Intel management engines, they're making sure you can't buy a product without them at any price. Not only that but und

>when it comes to Pluton, or the AMD and Intel management engines, they're making sure you can't buy a product without them at any price. Not only that but under the guise of "recycling", many 18-wheelers of perfectly functional PCs are being destroyed rather than re-purposed and these are primarily the ones powerful enough to run the latest OS's. Anything decently powerful lacking the encumbrance of the hardware ME/TPM generation is the prime target of the agressive destructive effort.