Microsoft has actually changed the system requirements in the past before with Windows 10. Once they upped the minimum disk size after their bloated updates made it impossible to install new feature versions on the original drive size requirement. And once to dump support for some Atom...
Broadcom strikes me as the worst name mentioned IMO.
Broadcom's M.O. is to jack up the price sky high to extract all the money they can from their large and conservative (read as slow moving) customers while not caring about the ones that can quickly leave. After screwing those customers for...
That was tongue in cheek since there is no real difference in the architecture. I probably should have called it skylake 6 core. That is why it was such BS they broke socket compatibility but expected nonetheless.
Coffeelake came out 8 months after zen 1, and it wouldn't even existed if zen's presence hadn't forced their hand. And the quick turn around proved how easy it would have been to have just given us some more cores. I agree coffeelake was pretty good, since the prices were much better than...
Kabylake wasn't really bad compared to what came before, but it was an absolute insult. 5 generations with no increase in core count even on the top sku, more if you count nehelam and the core 2 quad era. Even Intel's ardent fans started to ask, how long are they going to milk this? As if to...
While sandy/ivy lasted a long time, I tend to agree that given the landscape this isn't as impressive as it looks. AMD was basically casting resurrection spells on itself this entire era and functionally did not exist as a competitor. And Intel started it's long decline at the same time...
IIRC (old man ancient memories) Windows 95 stored the startup and shutdown images (It is now safe to turn off your computer...) in fake .sys files that were just renamed bitmaps so this unnecessary obfuscation isn't without precedent.
Knowing modern Microsoft they were storing lock screen ads...
It seems like you could install the patch for 5000 series, buy an infected motherboard and still be screwed.
It was never clear to me if Intel management engine can access the network unless you're using an Intel NIC (common). Logically the management engine needs some kind of low level driver...
I picked up one of these during one of the sales to upgrade my unraid server. I was thinking of running it in eco mode to save power/heat since I mostly bought it for the extra cores for VMs. I'm also running an unimpressive x470 motherboard so I wasn't planning on stressing things anymore than...
Really just a theory, but it is clear they're jealous of iOS and Android's heavily locked stores where they get a cut off all sales and near total control over the platform.
No one would release Windows software that requires TPM 2.0 right now if they want to sell it, but after Microsoft...
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