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A PC from 11 years ago is likely running a spinning hard disk and running a 32-bit version of the OS, no?
by mattl 5y ago
A 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.