This is good, Intel won't fix the CPU in my old Thinkpad W701ds because it's too old now for a firmware upgrade I guess. But the thing is not only more than fast enough for today's use, it also has 32GB RAM and I just got a couple new Chinese batteries for it. There's no way I'm switching from it, you can't even get a real keyboard in a laptop any more.
If operating systems start to beef up security more aggressively then I won't have to worry so much about having old microcode. OpenBSD is ahead of Linux on this too afaicr, sadly though it doesn't like the Nvidia GPU in my computer.