3 ms·

>If... the manufacturer [of your PC] doesn't officially support it for Windows 10, you're at risk. In other news, water is wet.

asveikau 9y ago
Windows upgrades have worked for decades without manufacturer support. I can't remember the last time in the "32 bit and above" era that a whole class of CPU stopped working release to release. You might be bound by RAM or a particular driver but you were generally ok to upgrade. Is Apple's grip on this community so strong that we now accept hardware deprecation for PCs? (Though even apple didn't cut off my 2009 machine until sierra.)
- amyjess 9y ago
  > I can't remember the last time in the "32 bit and above" era that a whole class of CPU stopped working release to release. You might be bound by RAM or a particular driver but you were generally ok to upgrade. The problem isn't with the actual CPU cores but with the graphics drivers. Unlike all other Intel chips, these Atoms have PowerVR GPUs that have been EOL'd by the manufacturer. The existing GPU drivers won't work with the new Windows 10, and reverse-engineering them without manufacturer support would be too much of a pain (there aren't even good Linux drivers for these GPUs, TBH).
  - asveikau 9y ago
    If it worked in the last release it's a regression and they can fix it. It sounds to me like a compat bug where the true severity wasn't understood or acted upon until too late. (Disclosure: I worked for MS from 2008-2011.)
  - morganvachon 9y ago
    I don't know why you're being downvoted, you're exactly right on all points. This is one of the few situations where moving to Linux doesn't improve support for a non-Windows-supported device. The PowerVR GMA500 never worked well under Linux from day one. I've had two netbooks with this CPU/GPU combo, even under Windows 7 performance was terrible and the driver was buggy.

3 ms·

>If... the manufacturer [of your PC] doesn't officially support it for Windows 10, you're at risk. In other news, water is wet.

by lightbyte 9y ago

asveikau 9y ago
Windows upgrades have worked for decades without manufacturer support. I can't remember the last time in the "32 bit and above" era that a whole class of CPU stopped working release to release. You might be bound by RAM or a particular driver but you were generally ok to upgrade. Is Apple's grip on this community so strong that we now accept hardware deprecation for PCs? (Though even apple didn't cut off my 2009 machine until sierra.)
- amyjess 9y ago
  > I can't remember the last time in the "32 bit and above" era that a whole class of CPU stopped working release to release. You might be bound by RAM or a particular driver but you were generally ok to upgrade. The problem isn't with the actual CPU cores but with the graphics drivers. Unlike all other Intel chips, these Atoms have PowerVR GPUs that have been EOL'd by the manufacturer. The existing GPU drivers won't work with the new Windows 10, and reverse-engineering them without manufacturer support would be too much of a pain (there aren't even good Linux drivers for these GPUs, TBH).
  - asveikau 9y ago
    If it worked in the last release it's a regression and they can fix it. It sounds to me like a compat bug where the true severity wasn't understood or acted upon until too late. (Disclosure: I worked for MS from 2008-2011.)
  - morganvachon 9y ago
    I don't know why you're being downvoted, you're exactly right on all points. This is one of the few situations where moving to Linux doesn't improve support for a non-Windows-supported device. The PowerVR GMA500 never worked well under Linux from day one. I've had two netbooks with this CPU/GPU combo, even under Windows 7 performance was terrible and the driver was buggy.