Re: ULA1 nextgen idea...
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:45 am
I use mostly laptops (though I have a 2013 iMac dual-booted) and have never needed to upgrade any hardware (graphics or otherwise) on any of them (who does that even now days other than if you are building your own system and are a serious gamer). Maybe occasionally replace a broken hard drive but that's it. They kind of work as designed. Like I said, I'm for newer hardware and if that requires newer OS to utilize then so be it. But I've also downgraded a laptop that came with Windows 8 to Windows 7. We also were recently given a Windows 10 all-in-one HP that we are possibly downgrading in the future to Windows 7 because the poor things is crippled and runs dog-slow.Brane2 wrote:OK. So what do you do when you need a new piece of hardware ? Perhaps you need to change graphic card.bwinkel67 wrote: I'm in the process right now of installing Windows 7 on my wife's machine that had its disk fail after running for 5 years. On all my installations, the first thing I do is turn updates off. I've never used updates on any of my machines and don't have any compatibility issues (I run the latest version of Chrome as well as other apps with no problem). The nice things about not using updates is you don't eventually experience a system slow down.
Or when nVidia, AMD or Intel improve drivers so taht they run, say 10 or 15% faster in some situations ?
Or when problems crop up, like with task scheduler policy WRT Zen and are then patched ?
You ignore them ?
Why of some of those fixes matter to you ?