Originally Posted by
crackjack
Didn’t the Spectre and Meltdown microcode introduction in 2018 cause a slowdown? My Ivy Bridge Vaio, while usable, definitely saw a ~20% hit in speed…
For some reason I seem to remember that you had to apply a patch for the speed hit. It also depends on what you do. Pretty sure many people wouldn't notice it (versus someone doing devops or multi-media)
Originally Posted by
richarddd
Probably the only issue is wifi periodically slows dramatically until I reboot, but that could well be a driver (although it's on the latest) or software issue.
Haven't had that happen and I currently have two Lenovos (one 8th gen, one 10th gen CPUs) currently running. Granted I'm not streaming data to a large amount to those machines so it's likely not noticable). That said, I hate these types of issues. They're harder to diagnose than other types.