The article talked about current releases supporting old hardware, claiming MacOS support going to 2007 is impressive. I got Windows 10 running on a Pentium 4 f

The article talked about current releases supporting old hardware, claiming MacOS support going to 2007 is impressive. I got Windows 10 running on a Pentium 4 from 2006, and Windows 10 hardware requirements are unchanged from Windows 8.1, and 8.1's requirements are little changed from 8 (the advertising says it's unchanged, but very old machines running 64-bit Windows 8 are demoted to 32-bit Windows 8.1), and Windows runs on impressively small and cheap computers like the Intel Compute Stick. The big difference there is that Apple eliminated support for 32-bit CPUs and Intel GMA. Consequently, there is very little 64-bit software on Windows, but on Mac practically any application can take many GB of RAM. Computers do go bad, though. I decided I'd ultimately retire that Pentium 4, because the cooler is becoming less effective. (Also, it can't play HD videos from YouTube and it consumes lots of watts for what it does and has always made a lot of noise.) The fan in my Toshiba laptop from 2005 broke and made lots of racket while overheating. The fan in my HP laptop from 2009 kept getting clogged and eventually stopped spinning. My PowerBook from 2005 just one day did not boot anymore.