Are you considering upgrading to avoid the Meltdown/Spectre issues?

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Are you considering upgrading to avoid the Meltdown/Spectre issues?

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Thats all people are talking about on other forums. Changing to AMD, switching to newer cpus to get firmware/bios updates and support.

Has this affected you enough to want to upgrade?
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Re: Are you considering upgrading to avoid the Meltdown/Spectre issues?

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In theory, all my Intel systems are new enough that they should get updates (except the play system I have that's the old E6510). Haven't heard a peep from Acer as to WHEN, but Dell still shows the end of this month for my older E5430, and Lenovo is still saying my older T430 should get one. The rest of my laptops have already received an update. As for my desktop, it's an AMD.
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Re: Are you considering upgrading to avoid the Meltdown/Spectre issues?

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Just got a blurb that my E5410 might get something after all, but we'll see what happens.

Most of my hardware is fine but I do have some older systems that may not get an update.
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