<div dir="ltr">It doesn't sound like there is an end in sight yet it's a pretty earthshattering set of issues. It sounds like BIOS/UEFI and Kernel developers are getting passed the torch first. Which we're going to take a huge up to 30% performance hit on the current day quick fixes then eventually we're going to likely end up seeing faster subsequent fixes later. But for now, it doesn't sound like the manufacturers are even able to do much just yet. Maybe prefer AMD for a while or something who knows.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 2:18 PM <<a href="mailto:jekerr@sdf.org">jekerr@sdf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone<br>
<br>
Is this problem big enough to make IT departments delay any new hardware<br>
purchases?<br>
<br>
Why would anyone buy a computer that is flawed if they can wait for on<br>
that is not.<br>
<br>
It is almost like Osbourne computer company of yesteryear who announced a<br>
new faster model was coming when they had a warehouse full of the old<br>
models. that was the end of them.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
John<br>
<br>
<br>
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