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In light of recent news and the 2 threads here about AMD and Intel |
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vulnerabilities I of course would have my only Windows machine apparently |
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start to die. As it's quite old, circa 2006 or so, I'm forced to at least |
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consider purchasing something to replace it. |
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This machine has only been used over the last 3-4 years for a few Win 10 |
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recording studio music applications. That's likely to be true for the |
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near-term future but would eventually run Linux if I manage to get rid of |
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these last few holdouts. There's no financial data on it and very little |
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that's personal but it does reside on the main network in my home. It's not |
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generally used for browsing the web in any general way although it has been |
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used in the past to download soft synth patches and updates from music app |
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vendors. |
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My reading of the two recent threads are that neither is likely to be a big |
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problem for a closed hardware platform like a laptop, and especially for a |
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machine at home, but forced to choose I should probably go with an AMD |
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machine at this time. |
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Would that be the consensus of the group here? |
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thanks, |
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Mark |