[mey]

Same boat for my XPS 8700, also kept around for same reason. 24gb ram i7 4th gen. Great for development, including VM work. Unless I was regularly doing video transcoding or heavy CAD work, it's more than fast enough.

Contacted Dell support and confirmed they will not be releasing a BIOS update for the system.

First harm to me from this issue. Not sure if it means I will have to join a class action against Dell or Intel

[ac29]

Might want to check again tomorrow. My Dell Desktop (Ivy Bridge/3rd Gen era) received a BIOS update today, specifically noting "Update to the latest CPU microcode to address CVE-2017-5715." It updates the ME firmware too for those recent bugs.

[mey]

Thanks for the heads, I'll keep an eye out, but it's not listed on the following consumer systems list

http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln308587/micro...