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Are older computers a security risk ?
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<blockquote data-quote="roger_m" data-source="post: 871441" data-attributes="member: 31436"><p>Not really. They have about 6 months of support from the computer manufacturer, but they usually get continued support from the individual device manufacturers, for at least a few years.</p><p></p><p>To give some more examples, I just fired up one of my old laptops which is 14 years old and is running the current build of Windows 10. Windows runs quite fast, which is surprising considering it has one of the slowest Core 2 Duo processors released. While some drivers are very old, the audio and Ethernet drivers, were both released this year.</p><p></p><p>On another 13 year old laptop, which is also running Windows 10.</p><p>The touchpad driver was released in 2017.</p><p>The Bluetooth driver was released in 2013.</p><p>The video driver was released in 2012.</p><p></p><p>All of these drivers are the OEM ones, rather than generic ones from Microsoft.</p><p></p><p>As previously mentioned, while Windows Update is not a good source of up to date drivers, you can manually download updated drivers from OEMs, or do it automatically with driver update software.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roger_m, post: 871441, member: 31436"] Not really. They have about 6 months of support from the computer manufacturer, but they usually get continued support from the individual device manufacturers, for at least a few years. To give some more examples, I just fired up one of my old laptops which is 14 years old and is running the current build of Windows 10. Windows runs quite fast, which is surprising considering it has one of the slowest Core 2 Duo processors released. While some drivers are very old, the audio and Ethernet drivers, were both released this year. On another 13 year old laptop, which is also running Windows 10. The touchpad driver was released in 2017. The Bluetooth driver was released in 2013. The video driver was released in 2012. All of these drivers are the OEM ones, rather than generic ones from Microsoft. As previously mentioned, while Windows Update is not a good source of up to date drivers, you can manually download updated drivers from OEMs, or do it automatically with driver update software. [/QUOTE]
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