I hate this new trend of taking several different technologies and giving them all a common name. Centrino / VIIV / vPro - all suck IMHO.

I wish they wouldn't do this, because...well because I said so. LOL

Kind of like "Netburst" for the corporate world, eh?

Sell it again, Sam.

So you could be running F@H in the background and manage it completely independent of/transparent to the OS/user? Awesome.

Yawn.

Another buzz term that means nothing. Corporate buyers won't bite on a marketing term and smaller companies will only be interested if there's a discount in it.

VT wants to be Pacifica when it grows up.

Did I catch a "vee dubbed" in there?

what about EFI ?...this machines should have EFI already if not, then Apple have the only intel vPro computers on the world.

Damn Cyril you fixed it already, I liked it when the first line of the last paragraph read

Intel says AMD and VT will show up in the first vPro machines "later this year,"

So many funny lines I can't use now ;)

"... where particular tasks or activities can run independently, invisible to and isolated from PC users."

I read this as, "where viruses and spyware can run independently, and can operate without interfering with a user's PC experience as did the malware of yesterday."

FP!