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hp recalling batteries for they are prone to catch fire.
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I have this HP Envy with the SSD: https://slickdeals.net/f/10832115-hp-envy-x360-15-aq273cl-touchscreen-2-in-1-laptop-intel-core-i7-1080p-699-99?t=10832115 and it also has the sharp edges where the...
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Thought some of y'all should know in case it hasn't been reported about HP in this thread: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/hp-recalls-select-laptop-batteries-due-to-fire-and-burn-hazards/
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Does Ryzen architecture have this bug since its x86 platform?
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virtual memory concept is there in AMD also, I guess, isnt' it? Only prediction technology is with intel only so I guess AMD ryzen would be better....what say?
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"Does that mean they can never sell ? " You bring up a good point :) LoL.... That depends on SOOOOO many different factors.... and not just the obvious ones... Its walking a tight rope in the...
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Intel has a very long history of shady practices.. That doesn't give me confidence and diminishes the benefit of the doubt.
First, AMD and Intel CPU architecture are not exactly alike if you...
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The bugs with modern architecture are related to hardware instruction prediction and pre-fetch, something that Intel was particularly good at /hence Intel had always better single thread...
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30% is the WORSE case scenario where they specifically drilled the cpu through a loop back of i/o which would never occur in a normal use case scenario. 5% is the expected overhead for normal tasks....
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Now with 30% less processing power! What a fun new feature Intel!
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you don't understand what he was talking about.
there is a designing security flaw for all Intel cpu for last decades.
To patch the security hole with software , all OS would lose 30% or more...
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He didn't say anything about the OS. He said that about Intel CPU's.
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Intel CPU's are supposed to take a hit but in normal benchmarks, it doesn't show to be the case. From what I read, the solution is page table isolation which would affect virtual memory. Synthetic...
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I thought it was supposedly 5-30% and not more than 30% unless you meant in very specific applications?
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If this had been posted a week ago I would've bought.
I was actually looking for laptop with a 8xxx processor, thank god I didn't find a good deal before the CPU vulnerability was discovered lol.
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Are you sure? When I was checking my own HP laptop I noticed the X360 range *was* listed in the recall. Are there some specific X360's which are not and this is definitely one of them?
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Intel share price dropped 2.5% yesterday :-) (predictably - day traders who keep up with this stuff probably made a month's wages on short selling...)
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Also having this issue, with different HP. PITA, thanks M$.
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http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-envy-laptop-x360-15t-2gj44av-1?jumpid=ma_weekly_deals~laptops~30~cto~2GJ44AV~HP_ENVY_x360_Convertible_Laptop_-_15t
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Windows 10 Home 64
Intel® Core™...
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Cool story bro.
The performance gains for video editing on a SSD is leaps and bounds better than having to carry an extra small portable $60 2tb hard drive or use the cloud???
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When will the prices drop? I dont see any immediate indication of it?
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Not likely as Intel powered laptops and desktops take most share of the market.
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No, because of the way it processes parallel threads differently.
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Not necessarily. My friend is a freelance video editor and he’ll gladly take a 7200rpm 1TB HDD over a 240GB SSD because he has to travel a lot and toting along external HDD’s to all his filming sites...
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Stop spreading misinformation. Go look at the newest round of post-patch benchmarks. The only hit observed was to NVME SSD's, specifically 4k reads.
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It's really TBD. But you are right.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2018/01/03/intel-kernel-memory-flaw/
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Good call. Now with the correct information you can purchase a laptop void of a CPU... Solid plan.
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No SSD at this price?
I bought a Lenovo, touchscreen 1080p, backlit keyboard, i5 cpu and ssd for $320 at BB last year. I guess i lucked out.. been looking for another laptop for my family but so...
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Waiting for intel's CPU 9° generation... Hopefully without any big hardware bug.
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Read that link, AMD says no issues to them
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Exactly why the arm and os mfgs are patching their systems lol.
not to mention amd is saying 'near 0 chance' amd procs are effected and 'has not been seen live' as in amd will only do something...
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It would be great to have a button to hide like 90% of these comments. This is the best deal I have found recently.
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Looks to be back on. Am I seeing it correctly?
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5% or 30% it doesn't matter. The real issue here is Intel hid a backdoor on their CPUs for more than 15 years. the worst part is they sold 12 millions of shares few days ago when they knew someone...
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given all the other intel cpus out there which are in almost every ultrabook type machine would also get the hit if not a larger hit, relatively this is still just as much faster if not more now
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Who are you to claim that Intel hid a backdoor? Because AMD and ARM is affected by one of the variants too and have a security vulnerability did they hide a backdoor as well? How about you know, it...
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Well it's good thing I have held off upgrading my rig cpu and chipset wise.
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I said that more tongue in cheek than anything else. Obviously this news is still breaking, so for it to have an impact on market will take time.
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For those that are interested in the laptop, I purchased the best buy version of this with an i5 during one of their holiday sales and it's a pretty good laptop.
The build is great except there's...
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You are doubling down when you are holding 12. :)
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