My PC is 9 years old and, try as I might, I couldn’t get Windows 11 to work on my PC. Tried all the work around and cheats and secrets I found on the inter tube. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. I ran programs to check W11 compatibility and they just laughed at me.
So I broke down and bought a new CyberPower PC at Costco.
Spent a week trying to up back up everything on my old PC knowing full well I would forget something critical. Happens every time.
Started setting up my new PC (worst torture known to mankind). Everything going reasonably well until I try to hook up my old monitor, which works perfectly well. My old monitor has a DVI connector and the back of my new PC has an IWCH connector which I’ve never heard of. Quick Google search. Nothing. OK, I take a picture of the IWCH connector and run off to BestBuy to look for an adaptor.
I see a young woman at the computer desk and tell her I’m looking for a DVI-IWCH connector. She looks at me like I’m from another planet. Ha! I’ll show her! I take out my phone and show her a picture of the back of my new PC with the connection clearly labeled IWCH.
Now she just looks at me slowly shaking her head.
“The way they put the connector in the PC caused the label to be upside down” she says. “If you flip the picture over it’s an HDMI connection.”
I have a brand new Dell on the floor next to me. two months now. Scared to death to try and gin it up. I have a heart condition. Gettin’ too old for this sh…
You guys want to have your heads explode? 11 has been out for several years. All Mr Softie has to do is declare the existence of 12, and 11 is on a short clock to end of support.
fwiw, I’m still running 10. I have found that a/v and firewalls, as well as apps, are produced for Windows versions for a considerable period after Mr Softy has turned out the lights. I have three computers that run 10 just fine. I have two Canon printers that run on 10 just fine. Canon tested the models I have on the initial release of 11, and they worked, but Canon has no intention of supporting them on 11, or anything newer.
The general pattern, over the years, has been to leapfrog Windows releases. I had 3.1, 95, 98SE, XP, Vista, 10.
Have you guys noticed, you can’t hardly get a PC with a DVD burner built in? The last new Dell I bought, has a burner, but it’s a pathetic, flimsy, thing, that looks like a refugee from a laptop…and Dell does not sell replacements. The newer Dell XPS doesn’t even have an internal bay for a burner. If you want one, you end up with an external, USB thing.
I was running Windows 7 up until two years ago. The Dell finally died and I bought an HP with Win11. Reinstalled my Office 2010 copy and life has been fine ever since! Not sure why anyone worries about support; I never needed any danged support. I expect I’ll be running Win11 until - Oh wait; I can’t do that now - MSFT determines when my machine is moved to the next iteration, I can’t control updates!
Reminds me of an incident at the dawn of personal computers when a client of ours, an accounting firm, could not get the printer connected to an Apple ][ to work. We checked the connections and all the microswitches and everything was perfect according to the printer’s manual and there was no way to get the thing to work. It made no sense. I just stared at the manual until the AHA! moment came. I blurted out to Ana, a member of our staff, “Ana, forty does not follow thirty nine.” She replied, “Of course not.” The accountants that heard the exchange looked at us as lunatics from another planet! Based on the revelation we reset the switches and the printer worked perfectly.
Solution to the mystery: Whoever translated the manual did not speak Hexadecimal!
One of the reasons I’m in the Apple Universe. Updates are free. About 3 years ago bought a new iMac and transferring data was simple. Literally make a connection and a mouse click.
My software stack to build the game is Epic’s Unreal Engine, Microsoft’s PlayFab, and Microsoft’s Visual Studio. The job is getting done in a mix of CPP and Visual Scripting; the VS is most of the job.
I have a provisional patent application. If I run low on time I can get a PCT patent to extend my timeline. The PCT is an international patenting agreement.
Today is a big day of programming.
As mi Irish mother says, “It is a good life unless you weaken”. I do not know how that applies, and Mom won’t tell me.
Win 11 requires the PC to have certain security features, and only newer processors are certified to run 11. My Dell XPS has all the security features, but the processor is one generation older than the oldest certified CPU. My HP and Dell Inspiron are older, and lack the security features as well has having uncertified processors.
I kind of get it. Besides the usual stuff (good genes, eating healthy, exercising), I would include adaptability (keep up or get run over) and having a good sense of humor (including the ability to laugh at yourself).
That’s the only reason I buy a new Apple product, it can’t handle the new security updates. So once I buy, I’m good for 6-8 years usually.
Unless like today, DW dropped her iPad one too many times and doesn’t seem to hold a charge anymore. Could be battery or something has come loose. It lasted 3+ years. I usually get her hand-me-down iPad to use for ebooks.
6 to 8 years? I bought my Dell XPS new, in November 2017. My HP, which I bought used off eBay, was built in December of 2012. The Dell Inspiron I rescued from the neighbor’s trash was built in October 2010.
All the stuff was still functioning. All about being able to handle the security updates with new iOS systems. But the main point, free OS upgrades. The iMac I’m on now is on its 4th iOS upgrade, no extra cost. Where if you went from Windows 7 to 11, you’d have to buy every time. You could argue that all you need is Windows 7 but depending on what you do, sooner or later you will have to upgrade. For me, its all about security upgrades.
Well, actually, the HP came with 8.1. Mr Softie made the upgrade to 10 free. If any of my computers met the security and processor specs, the upgrade from 10 to 11 would have been free.