The computer that I am using is only 5 years old with a modern but not approved processor. The headline made it sound like people in my situation were going to be having difficulties soon. But it was just one more article trying to enforce planned obsolescence.
Almost no one in the thread was able to figure out why I posted this. We are told by Microsoft and a bunch of hangers on that you need to buy a new computer. I personally could not care how old a computer is as long as it is capable of doing what I want it to use it for.
Don't know you, but think you may be my long lost brother from another mother.
This reply comes to you courtesy of my now 12 year old AMD FX-8350 with 32GB of memory, 1TB Samsung SSD Drive and 20TB SSD RAID Array.
12 years old. Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux 23.10 dual-boot. Runs like a scalded cat. Who needs new?
(Ok, my newest computer is an AMD Ryzen 5700X w/64Gb Memory and 20TB SSD RAID Array) which I use mostly for music production and virtualization. It runs Ubuntu 23.10 exclusively.)
“I personally could not care how old a computer is as long as it is capable of doing what I want it to use it for.”
Ahhh! Precisely and exactly! To many the “need” to have the absolute newest digital gadget, including computers, is like an addiction.
I run old computers and old software simply because it all does what I want it to and as efficiently as I want it to. It’s a little like having that old Chevy car, if it still gets me where I want to go with little to no trouble, why buy new?