[sverige]

Interestingly enough, on HP's website with the security bulletin on Meltdown and Spectre, they have brief description of the vulnerabilities and a list of their many models. [1]

A few days ago, this had a schedule of microcode updates, with some models showing a date that the update had already been released, and most others showing anticipated release dates, with many (including one of my laptops) showing an anticipated release date of February 9 for the microcode. Now they all show "TBD."

And fwiw, I have heard a lot of people say bad things about HP products, but I have found their support to be much better than average. They are generally on point with fixing vulns, at least in my limited experience.

[1] https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05869091

[iforgotpassword]

Never dealt with their enterprise/server stuff, but the consumer end is a fucking nightmare. The website is shitty by itself, but the best part was that until recently, some very smart folks at HP decided to use the user-agent string to determine the OS of the visitor and then only show according drivers. So there I was with my Linux system trying to download WiFi drivers for Windows which I just couldn't find, I was close to freaking out. I only realized this when I tried again the next day, coincidentally using a Windows machine. They added an option to switch the OS by now but man, I had some nice insults ready for the genius coming up with this...

Too bad WiFi reception was just as shitty under Windows, literally no signal next room. Oh and the USB ports didn't work properly under Linux but OK, the system wasn't advertised as Linux compatible anyways.

[sverige]

Yeah, the wifi was what prompted me to go the site. I needed an updated driver. This is a Windows laptop, so the site was designed for it. I have never tried to run OpenBSD on an HP laptop, but I've heard they suck for that use.