Desktop motherboards vs laptops - firmware updates frequency

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I checked carefully a few different desktop motherboards and a few laptop firmware update history and just realized that desktop pc motherboards receive firmware updates very rarely, sometimes 1-2 times per year and very few of the updates include security patches. This is even with high end boards “PRO” version. The boards i checked were from different brands.

While the laptops received a lot more updates per year and a lot of the updates patched A LOT of cves.

Can anyone explain why that is? Is there any reason or i am just not understanding something?

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High end boards are actually LESS likely to get updates.
Budget boards are more likely to get updates.

If you want a desktop with frequent updates you have to go with a prebuilt.

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I am sorry do you mind elaborating? What is the logic behind this? Does that mean desktop pc firmware is less secure than laptops?

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This means the more enterprisy vendors like Lenovo, Dell and HP are the ones more likely to push firmware updates out rather than the gamery brands such as Gigabyte, MSI and ASUS. This is because gamers are more likely to buy newer hardware over time vs cheap ass corporate and enterprise clients who tend to maximize device usage for cost savings. This scenario makes it that the consumer motherboard vendors pushes out BIOS/firmware updates rarely and stops supports faster than the corporate brands that tends to have people on devices for longer with critical roles (think bank teller computers). This is also the same reason why I daily drive an Optiplex Micro for day to day non-gaming use case (browsing and email).

Next time I will buy a laptop, I’d probably get either a Framework or a Thinkpad or its other equivalent.

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