Basically it's a business feature and usually not available on consumer laptops.
If IME could be reprogrammed then maybe there would be a way to add these features.
The device is weird because it strikes me as the perfect HTPC, and yet it isn't really marketed as such.
They're a lot more convenient for this than actual 19" servers, since they take up a tiny fraction of the space and power of even a single server. However they would be so much more useful if I could remote IPMI into them rather than having to find a monitor, keyboard, HDMI cable and mouse every time I want to fix them.
They would also be reasonable for home theatre since they are silent and low power, while at the same time having decent CPUs, but they use Intel graphics so I guess they probably can't drive 4K + 60Hz displays, although I've never actually tried.
On the other side because of security, I'm not sure whether I should be glad to use NUC models that don't have it at all.
So assuming I take the risk, what networking link does AMT require? Do I guess correctly that it works only over Ethernet? Thinking of mobile devices that have only a cellular modem link.
I'll give it a look, thanks.
Example: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FGMbh0rkL...
Rule of thumb (as far as I know, not exhaustive): No i3 model has vPro support, i5 models may or may not have vPro depending on the particular CPU used, and more or less all i7 models have vPro.