I posted a quick fix to the Core problem, it works for me, but I'm still disappointed that somebody else hasn't come up with a better solution. According to Razer, there's nothing wrong with it, now can we sell you some noise cancelling headphones to go with that noisy new Core? It's all above my level but on the lenovo forums people post about stuff like that all the time and even replacing the bios with coreboot etc. If somebody could post a hexdump of the EFI chip, somebody else could perhaps slip in the patch for SA-00086, at least.
I just wish we had more active community support here as these machines are quite a bit newer (my x220 and w520 are from 2011, whereas I just bought the Razer last August!) On a thinkpad forum I'm a member of there is already talk about backporting the meltdown/spectre mitigations to the sandy bridge and older machines if lenovo doesn't fix them, as they have already announced a fix but only back to the '30 series machines (i.e. Click to expand.Thank you for the excellent explanation! Although I do wish we had some hackers here could slipstream intel's patch into the existing firmware.
