Dayman1225
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Thats complete BS, maybe they should look at the actual benchmarks before responding they would look alot less like idiots.
Name dropping AMD is a bold move after an engineer claims they are not affected.
Quick answer is yes. If today you are able to use a system with a Intel Processor and are using Windows 7 or later, when this patch comes out, whatever affect it is going to have on any given application, your system will receive that performance penalty. The question now is what the actual application impact we will see.
Most concerned about having 10-20 firefox tabs with flash videos at once. That's probably the most resource intensive use my computers see.
This is moving fast, and knowing how these things usually work, the message was likely approved earlier in the day, and was out dated by the time it was posted.
I'll wait until the credits roll.
I'm very tired of the typical internet roller coaster ride with these types of stories.
supposedly Apple patched this a month ago, so it was known. Meaning, Intel knew about it. Nothing is really moving fast or outdated from Intel's perspective. This is just pure FUD.
Well I haven't heard of a drastic drop in Mac Book performance so maybe this is going to be OK for the home user?supposedly Apple patched this a month ago, so it was known. Meaning, Intel knew about it. Nothing is really moving fast or outdated from Intel's perspective. This is just pure FUD.
They likely thought that it would not get out. They could not really prepare a statement because there is no way of knowing how it would be received. Once they started seeing how this would look, they fast tracked a response that was meant distract. So its a mixture of FUD, but it was a mistake because of what we now know.
earlier, you suggested that Intel was very likely unaware of this flaw until yesterday (because they said so). Now, you're open to them knowing about it, but just assuming that no one else would figure it out, so no need to worry about spinning it.
intel always REDACTED cheats.
Profanity is not allowed or tolerated in the tech sub forums.
Do not let this happen again.
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Wait, we have a Mod named "Iron Woode", and he doesn't like profanity??? You can't make this stuff up!
I switched to Intel a long time ago, looks like it's time to go back to AMD.
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Is this the reason AMD stock price surges today?
They are definitely trying to deflect some of the issue here, but it is true that companies will need to do their own evaluations on performance impacts from this change. There could be less impact from Microsoft versus linux systems here. We need more in depth checks than these quick benchmarks we have seen.