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> 11 years old which is an eternity in technology time No its not. For casual use, 15 year old PC is very much fine and works perfectly in many use cases ie fo
by saiya-jin 5y ago
> 11 years old which is an eternity in technology time
No its not. For casual use, 15 year old PC is very much fine and works perfectly in many use cases ie for our parents. You may swap for SSD but that's it, it can be blazingly fast for the tasks required.
Forcing everybody to move into Linux when they can barely handle Windows is quite a stretch, there might be licences to software which won't work, same for hardware. Lets not forget whole world isn't on HN level of computer expertise to debug issues.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago>Forcing everybody to move into Linux when they can barely handle Windows is quite a stretch Nobody is forcing you to do anything. You can keep using whatever HW and OS you have as long as you wish. What's your point?
- mattl 5y ago11 years is a very long time in the personal computer industry. It’s a little under 20% of the time we’ve had such an industry.
- layer8 5y agoPC hardware of recent years is much longer lived in terms of performance than in earlier years.
- mattl 5y agoA PC from 11 years ago is likely running a spinning hard disk and running a 32-bit version of the OS, no?
- saiya-jin 5y agoI bought my first 64bit AMD CPU somewhere around 2001-2002 (at that time this premium turned out more or less useless). And as I mentioned, you may switch HDD to SSD to get very acceptable performance from even quite old computers.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago> bought my first 64bit AMD CPU somewhere around 2001-2002 I doubt it. The first Athlon 64 was launched late 2003.
- layer8 5y agoI meant slightly more recent, like when Windows 10 was released. But no, my relatives have PCs from 2010 running 64-bit Windows that I upgraded to SSDs in the mid-2010‘s and that are still running perfectly fine. I myself was running a 2012 PC (with SSDs from the start) until last year, and the replacement isn’t that much faster. I’m also running a second PC from 2016 that doesn’t meet the Windows 11 requirements but would surely be fast enough beyond 2025.
- floxy 5y agoVista was released in 2007 and supported x86-64. The first x86-64 machines from AMD were released in 2003.
- mattl 5y agoBut did people typically run Vista 64-bit or the 32-bit version?
- floxy 5y agoNo data to back this us, but my intuition would be that other than government or big corporations, everyone buying a new machine with Windows installed would get the 64 bit version. And even then the uber-conservative government / corporate buyers wouldn't be rolling out Vista, they'd be sticking with XP.
- mattl 5y agoI’ll ask some MS pals for some data.