Agreed. Hardware designed to run Win10 runs Win10 well.
Win10 typically has trouble on machines designed prior to Win10. There's a reason:
Win10 is NOT designed for back-compatibility, whether at the hardware level, the software level, or the user experience level. It is designed to drag the Windows community into a new environment, kicking and screaming. And surprise, we hear them kicking and screaming.
> I absolutely recommend SSD. Samsung is as top-of-the-line as it gets. Steer clear of OCZ, IMO. I’ve had nothing but problems with them.
Agreed 100% on both counts. I won't use anything but Samsung, and haven't had any failures in perhaps a dozen installs. The only OCZ I had a few years ago sh!t the bed after a couple months.
Understand that Microsoft is essentially damned if they do, damned if they don’t. On the one hand, people want all their old crap to work on a newer operating system. Microsoft makes concessions to allow older hardware to work, but they have to protect their kernel. Older stuff required more permissive kernel environments to work. Vendors don’t want to support that older stuff, so they say that Microsoft’s new OS doesn’t support it. Microsoft is the bad guy.
On the other hand, people want a rock solid, secure operating system to prevent their personal information from being stolen to to protect them from themselves when it comes to viruses, malware, etc. To get that, Microsoft has to lock down the kernel and make the operating environment more secure which, by most measures, makes it less permissive. This means that older hardware doesn’t play as well, and subsequently, Microsoft is blamed for making a crap OS.
Can’t have it both ways. Windows 10 is their most secure OS by nature of the hardened kernel in concert with secure boot environments enabled with UEFI. We could go back to open BIOS with MBR-based disks, but modern criminals know how to compromise those systems with little more than an email saying that grandma’s secret lasagne recipe is in the attached Word document.