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    Here’s how much the Meltdown and Spectre fix hurt my Surface Book performance

    by GORDON MAH UNG Feb 02, 2018 3 minutes

    As a performance junkie, I’m less concerned about the security risks of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities (see page 115)—after all, there are no known exploits in use today—than I am about a performance hit from the fixes.

    And from what I’m seeing, my concerns are warranted.

    My sole experience with a fully updated platform so far is with Microsoft’s original Surface Book. It’s based on an Intel Skylake Core i7-6700U and has 16GB of LPDDR3 and a 512GB Samsung 950 Pro NVMe drive. The Surface Book is running the 64-bit Windows

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