On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 01:05:34AM +0200, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > Honestly, the latest round of flaws are nothing special. For most > desktop use case, I wouldn't worry. It is very difficult to exploit > it. If you are really worried, go for something like an i3, which is > essentially an i5 with HT disabled. I would be worried about several > easier to exploit issues before worrying about MDS or L1TF. (Meltdown > was different, but newer CPUs already have it fixed in hardware). > Something like Spectre affects every single modern CPU which does > speculative execution and we will be fighting it for a long long time. > > (Of course, if you are in a cloud environment, the situation is different).
Actually the i5 has no HT, the i3 always does. The i5 is essentially an i7 with HT off. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
