If you are sensitive about the Intel Management Engine, the original Core 2 Duo/Quad systems are the last where it could be fully disabled. Anything later will

If you are sensitive about the Intel Management Engine, the original Core 2 Duo/Quad systems are the last where it could be fully disabled. Anything later will forcibly shut down after 30 minutes if (at least a fragment of) Intel's closed & bug-ridden monitoring code is not present. I ran me_cleaner on a few of these systems, and I do all my finances with them running OpenBSD (usually on q9550s). Yes, this effort to run old hardware is worth it for me. Below are the bios images that I was able to produce: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233 https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233