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>I bought my parents a Dell laptop in 2019/2020. It has 7th gen i3 7th gen came out in 2016. Why did you buy your parents a system with a 3-4 old CPU? Nothing
by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>I bought my parents a Dell laptop in 2019/2020. It has 7th gen i3
7th gen came out in 2016. Why did you buy your parents a system with a 3-4 old CPU? Nothing wrong with buying old stuff if that's what you're into or what you can afford, but then you have to take into account the risk of less SW support when buying old HW, since now that CPU is 9 years old and no HW gets supported forever. Hence the saying "you buy cheap, you buy twice". Just install Linux on it.
- jakub_g 1y agoYou made me double check, actually it's 8th gen (came out late 2017). It was 2y old at the time of buying (I wasn't really paying attention to the processor tbh). So actually, not sure which Windows 11 prerequisites are not met, I need to dig more.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago8th gen supports Windows 11 but I would skip that and move directly to Linux