From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SsC9i-0002WX-W5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:18:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A94CE0521; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12791E072E for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:13:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so3206754bkw.40 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:13:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=VhF4FILs8HTSZhCjnlip3wtCDRAXHFIqwWj6ugRzMDQ=; b=cgB2hSPk+AtIzR0Ig64WEliv5JGjjv2JMPdB5XrPQM2x8CbSQN4SFj6Y0TTEphyV7P KgL2CATdJS35Qe3Z9WeelXpcuPn/WuEPr/O8dbNiKHOGJHzqAzT9qmbfhIjNTAGWJKE3 o/8lF/+6ISaycohVC/T9VnC7HLB/7YjHdGKOrSqDo87JvBsHCL3Kr4882JOtVI0GkZhD aEeXW0zHIeBR6AOt4JteaY1qTrCn9C159HkUPN2aMcg0PG/lfzClXNtIZvcAVkAlTX9X rrLebx3i2TXmd+a9RqUag7Wlj4M+rkgeirWIgd1Q7epkJn72U+lblx1ZZoLws/13YONl mRRw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.205.120.18 with SMTP id fw18mr2902618bkc.64.1342786422028; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:13:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.12 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:13:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120720144011.17d96b2fc9d0d0786e0d2e8b@ukr.net> References: <20120720072442.GD2871@ca.inter.net> <20120720144011.17d96b2fc9d0d0786e0d2e8b@ukr.net> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:13:41 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d611a0b2-5dcb-4dc7-9432-fb4e90034acc X-Archives-Hash: 61625de46e5e0f8f6920a897d92b80b0 On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:40 AM, wrote: > Hello! > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:24:42 -0400 > Philip Webb wrote: > >> I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: >> it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as >> price. >> >> A quick look at what was available in April suggested >> an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 ( 22 nm ) ; Phoronix said it works with Kernel >> 3.2 >> + an Intel Z77 mobo (I usually buy ASUS) & that power/watt was >> excellent. >> > If you are considering to buy an Intel CPU, I'd recommend you to pay > some attention to such Intel' technologies as this one: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Intel_Insider_and_remote-control > because it doesn't looks like an advantage to the end user, but rather > as a security (or privacy) hole in one's system. We went through this on this list a couple months ago. That tech has been part of business-grade laptops and workstations for a while. It's intended as a tool for a corporate IT department, not the direct user of the machine. I'm not saying it's something I'd necessarily like to have on my personal devices, just that it's not exactly new. -- :wq