Originally Posted By: artie505
Not good at all, but since neither of us uses any cloud technology, we're at less risk from Meltdown than many other users

Everyone interacts with others that use cloud technology to store your personal data, including passwords. ISPs, stores, banks, insurance companies, the government. You couldn't avoid cloud tech if you wanted to.

Originally Posted By: artie505
If the fix is really a 20-30% machine slowdown, I suspect that many users, myself very possibly included, will ignore it.

While i’d like to think I control what runs on my computer and devices, I really don’t. But the real risk is in the cloud, someone else's computer by design, and usually there is no control over who shares that computer with the organization which whom I intend to interact.

Originally Posted By: artie505
I won't worry about it until Apple tells me that I need to worry.

Then I probably worry more than you, heh.

Originally Posted By: artie505
This quote is laughable! Quite bizarre, totally devoid of logic, and not the tiniest bit reassuring.

There was more to that statement, like “It's not just us, true story!” AMD disagrees a bit on that, though.