[marshmellowtest]

Why the downvotes? It's a legitimate question: ME/AMT can be neutralized or disabled.

Bios can be replaced with coreboot.

Some buyers and some vendors actually care about security.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

It's x86, so if you count ME/PSP as a back door, then the answer is almost universally going to be yes. It would be like commenting on the new release of Ubuntu and asking if it was still using a Bourne-like shell by default.