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