Yes, Asus is really slow with bios-updates. My HP-laptop have had numerous bios-updates since Meltdown/Spectre went public and have had the latest Intel-fix since several weeks ago. Nice the Extreme is updated, but sort of illogical from a security standpoint, as it is the rarest of the Z-170 boards ...
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