New Intel Motherboards To Detect Phone Calls During Sleep Mode

[zatoicchi]

Santa Clara (CA) - Intel said it has developed a new line of motherboards that will enable PCs to retain certain functionality, even when they are in a power saving sleep mode and consume potentially less than 20% the power they normally would.

The "new" motherboards, which have not received an official name yet, are planned to begin shipping next month and will come with so-called remote wake technology. It is not an entirely new feature, as it has been previously been available on Intel’s enterprise-focused vPro platforms (introduced in August 2007) with slightly different functionality, which allowed system administrators to carry out repairs or updates remotely on PCs within their organizations.

New Intel Motherboards To Detect Phone Calls During Sleep Mode (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-remote-wake,news-28943.html)

[anon]

A call will be enough for your PC to wake up... what if someone calls it by accident? ^^

[Aurion]

Well,it sounds like a nice idea u know but I guess they already invented such a tool earlier (where u could set a time for shutting down/turning on ur PC at any time).however,its nice to have such a chip/code plugged into ur motherboard

[anon]

(where u could set a time for shutting down/turning on ur PC at any time)

You could also make your PC an alarm clock that way and with Scheduled Tasks and Winamp :biggrin:

[Aurion]

yeah & so !! thats why I dont think they made any BIG difference this time by release such an add-on (if we can call it that way),its just that the single nice thing about that is that u will buy further motherboads with built-in BIOS codes to do such tasks