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I could imagine a super low power coprocessor that's always on would be a real useful tool. It could check my email and other low power tasks. And remote manag
by GekkePrutser 4y ago
I could imagine a super low power coprocessor that's always on would be a real useful tool. It could check my email and other low power tasks.
And remote management isn't bad if it's entirely under my control. It's the closed nature that makes me distrust it.
- Gigachad 4y agoThis has already been solved. Modern devices come with low power general purpose cores and OSs can wake up briefly to check for new messages. I just can’t see why you would ever want to remote manage your own laptop where some software installed on the OS isn’t sufficient.
- wmf 4y agoI just can’t see why you would ever want to remote manage your own laptop where some software installed on the OS isn’t sufficient. It's to remotely recover when Windows corrupts itself. (Which is far less common than it used to be.)
- borissk 4y agoIntel recent CPUs come with efficiency cores and support S0 standby, aka "Modern Standby", which can periodically wake up and do stuff like check for new emails.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThey do but it's not nearly as low-power nor as constantly available as Intel ME is.
- Avamander 4y agoThere have been earlier attempts at achieving this functionality by Intel, can't recall what they called it right now, but it has existed for a while.