that wakes up instantly and lets you do basic computing tasks immediately, then they have another reason why Windows Vista and Win7 will lose ground.

Microsoft, please find your way and lower your prices.

What Aharon is describing is so obviously about bringing AMT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology) technology to normal motherboards.

AMT is designed to allow complete management of the computer(installing stuff etc), using wol packets to wake and shut down the computer at specified times.

What the Ahron failed to mention that this fuctionality only really comes alive when used with System management utilities like Altiris Client Management Suite. 


Here's what google gave me:
"...an improved version of the Wake-on-LAN or Wake-on-WAN technology that has been around for about a decade.
The new addition to the technology is the ability for a VOiP call to wake up the PC, a feature that's obviously geared toward Skype and other VoIP providers. VoIP provider Jajah announced support for the technology. However, both Orb Networks and CyberLink did as well, evidence that Remote Wake will be used for media management, such as recording TV shows..."

Yup, WOL in disguise of the Internet protocol.

Just attach your computer to a low-power router, run the router 24*7, and bring the computer up when needed via WOL.

You can also have it wireless. Just use WOL, a wireless router and connect your computer via ethernet to the wireless router - until we get wireless cards which do the same as their ethernet sisters and brothers.

The only problem with this idea is that IT DOES NOT WORK as long as the f*ccing ISPs are blocking all inbound Internet traffic.

It's the mid-90's again. Intel runs out of ideas, so they just go back to the archive to and rehash old technologies. Are we going to have MMX make a comeback too? Or maybe Slot 1? 

Keep it coming, boys.

I don't get this, S3 sleep has been around for eons, I use it daily to wake my PC up to do scheduled tasks. What's new here?

Brilliant!! You only got one thing wrong, the date of the article.

This has been patented in 1998....

U.S. Patent No. 5,802,305 to McKaughan et al., entitled System for Remotely Waking a Sleeping Computer in Power Down State by Comparing Incoming Packet to the List of Packets Storing on Network Interface Card, issued on Sep. 1, 1998

Isn't this Wake on Lan (WOL) just reinvented? This stuff was around 6 or 7 years ago (possibly longer) and used a 'magic packet' to wake the PC up.

I'm sure the new version has extra bells and whistles, but it's still old news.