It appears to be available on a few other models as well (searching 'site:dell.com "ME inoperable"' brings up service tags for a few non-rugged Latitudes and a couple of Optiplexes), despite it not being an option on their configurators.<p>I wonder if this means that it's also possible to disable ME on those machines after purchase (without triggering Boot Guard)?<p>Dell only offers a single download per firmware version per model (or group of models) to cover all configurations, so presumably it contains multiple images (i.e. AMT-enabled, AMT-disabled, ME-disabled), and the updater just uses ME status or DMI data to determine the correct one.<p>If that's the case, then surely it should be as simple as manually extracting and flashing the ME-disabled image, right? That's assuming it's actually included in the publicly available updaters, and that all of the images are signed with the same key, of course.