Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed

Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by tomaskafka on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:37AM (#17827613)

I think Apple laptop CPUs will be like USB-C. First 'what's the point, nothing is compatible', year later 'everyone is doing it and it's actually pretty cool to attach everything including power with a single cheap dongle'.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by tolmasky on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:53AM (#17827738)

I wasn't aware we were there with USB-C. I still need a dongle every time I use anything. But more importantly, I was in the camp of "I barely connect anything to my computer other than power, and MagSafe worked so well I forgot it was ever an issue, but then "USB-C charging" regressed things to the point where I thought I was charging but nope, turns out the connector was slightly out and my battery is at 5%".

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by binomialxenon on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:04PM (#17829359)

I think it would take far longer than a year for a critical mass of OS X software to become ARM-compatible, but it could be viable in the long run.

I'd like for ARM laptops to become more popular though, as a Debian user nearly all the software I use is already there.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by Zelizz on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:26PM (#17830827)

Apple already got a huge number of developers to transition their apps to 64-bit ARM with the iPhone, I feel like if they made it simple enough they could get a critical mass on the desktop just as quickly.

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