Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Costs on an Intel Dual Core and HT Laptop
From a purely non-scientific standpoint my Latitude E7470 performance is below an acceptable threshold now.<p>FWIW: I haven&#x27;t done any benchmarks - This is purely anecdotal!<p>I use VS 2017 &#x2F; 2019 and the performance is definitely taken a noticeable hit since the last BIOS update.<p>Opening projects is slow but once they&#x27;re open the processor is pegged for longer and when using intellisense the process is pegged for longer now too. It&#x27;s at the point where I looked to replace it even though it was fine up until Jan&#x2F;Feb this year.<p>I tried backing out the BIOS update but it failed so I am stuck with it now.<p>I even bought a NVMe SSD which helped with IO a bit, and upped the RAM to 16GB but the processor is a huge bottleneck now.<p>It is bad enough that I even had a Surface Book 2 15&quot; for a week to test it and its performance is rotten as well so I returned it<p>My desktop with an 8700K O&#x2F;C to 5GHz hasn&#x27;t had a BIOS update since early 2018 (I think) and is instantaneous for most things: needless to say, I have no intention of updating it.<p>This is bad for Intel... really bad imo.<p>Edit: Added the NVMe and RAM bit.