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Intel Chips Have Memory Access Design Flaw and Fix Could Lead to Performance Drop
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Yep. Faster performance. Longer battery life. More features. No boot camp. Gonna suck.
Hehe yeah: $29 phone batteries?! Hold my beer.....
But seriously, this sucks and I will be really pissed if my computer permanently slows down just to stay safe, and if AWS bills go up because machines are just spinning away.
That one also has a bum GPU
I haven't seem a GPU problem with my system yet, only the 2010 15 inch were affected. The 17 inch 6,1 were not at least to my knowledge, however I may be getting a 2012 15 inch soon to replace the 2010.
I think that was meant as a joke, referring to the very slight increases in CPU performance from year to year recently.
Damn. That i7 4770 has been looking long in the tooth anyway
what are you running?
The "I" was for IBM, not Intel.
Slowdowns you say? Maybe my MBP will see improved battery life.
That’d be nice. My 2012 retina MacBook Pro is running 2.9ghz i7 processor so here’s hoping it gets more than 3 hours of battery life, though I doubt it
Slower performance due to the amount of emulation required to run software, myself and many people depend on boot camp, early oboselence for their current hardware, the same stuffing around we had for the intel translation except this time it's pointless, no guarantee of performance or battery life improvements.
Back to the dark PPC days.
Apple flips the switch to make phones run in degraded/unusable mode. Users here compare it to Intel downgrading your i7 to an i3.
Intel responds...
Intel responds...
Just read the original report. Outrageously stupid to speculatively issue the instruction before checking access protections. And the “cure” does seem like it’s bound to cause tremendous performance loss unless apple can identify a subset of the kernel that is frequently executed and yet can’t do any harm if illegally accessed. (Seems unlikely).
You can just go buy a real PC for a hundred bucks, and get better performance too.
I'm not interest in carrying around another machine when boot camp means carrying one. It all ready costs an arm and a leg to buy an overpriced Mac so why would I want to purchase another machine in addition?
This is more of a master key problem.
In the last ten years how, many times could this have been exploited already on millions upon millions of computers?
Sounds like you consider windows software to be an important requirement. At some point you’ll have to accept that Apple doesn’t really share your priorities. Maybe this year. Maybe next.
So you speak on behalf of Apple?
People have different requirements and you don't speak for them all. Being a Mac user got a million times easier after the intel transition, going back to the bad old days would suck.
I’m not speaking for anyone. But if you don’t think the future of Apple is ARM across the board you haven’t been paying attention.
I’d also bet INTEL knew about this WELLLLLLLLL before this announcement. Like many, many years before.
If NSA knew, before, and didn’t inform INTEL....?
I just bought one as well and I’m not happy to read this news at all. 5% - 30% on the high is a lot. I think something besides refunding us a hundred dollars or apology isn’t going to cut it. I’d prefer taking my new MacBook Pro to Apple and having this defective CPU exchanged for one without the flaw once those release. Intel can pay Apple for the screw up and we get proper CPUs.