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How does this bug affect current hardware in production? Is it worth waiting for the fix before buying the new MBPs, for example?

• gfiorav 9y ago
  I'd say no, you likely won't run into trouble because of this
  • j_jochem 9y ago
    This is subjective and very anecdotal, so take with a heap of salt: My 2016 Skylake MBP used to crash very regularly when waking it up from suspend (sometimes multiple times a day). When I first heard about this issue a week ago, I used XCode Instruments to disable Hypterthreading. I have not observed a single crash since.
    • gimmick73 9y ago
      Also anecdotal but I am experiencing no crashes with HT off on my 2016 MBPr. Be sure to turn HT off after a sleep/wake cycle as it gets reset each time.
      • j_jochem 9y ago
        Did you get a lot of crashes before?
• striking 9y ago
  EDIT: my comment was wrong. Thanks. There is a microcode update. Install it and you'll be fine. On macOS it should be installed automatically, according to https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201518 https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201518 (although that page doesn't say whether it's available or not)
  • j_jochem 9y ago
    The article states that Kaby Lake is affected, too. Maybe except not the Kaby Lake versions used in MBPs?