Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Should You Sign Up for Extended Security Updates for Windows 10?" video.

  1. Had to replace my old desktop a year ago October and got a refurbished Dell Optiplex, a 7 year old i5 based SFF and it came with Windows 11. It's been mostly trouble free and it's really more than fine and not enough different than 10 in basic operations. I, however, do have a retail copy of 10 sitting on a shelf that was for the old SFF Dell Optiplex, though a 4th gen i5 model that had 10 (also bought refurbished), but it threw a code that said mainboard failure (turned out to be the CMOS battery having died, but finding out after the fact and the upgrade had already taken place). Mind you, the SFF was NOT my first choice for the present computer, wanted to get the mini tower instead but the place only had the SFF, with NVME no less for $170 so that's what I have currently. Saving up the funds for a total replacement in the coming year, like going ahead with the new 15th gen Core 7, likely the Ultra as it's what's available at the moment. So with that, will build it from scratch and initially put Win 10 and then do a free upgrade to 11.
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  2.  @9852323  In this case, the old dell was one, a 10 year old PC, running a 4th gen Intel i5 processor, and 2, it sprung a code for mainboard failure, turned out, AFTER the fact to be the CMOS battery needed replacing, but the newer PC was already purchased, and has NVME. I hope to replace this present PC by next year with something more robust than a 7 YO core i5, SFF from Dell. Both were purchased refurbished locally, the older PC was in 2019, and only meant to be for the short term because of dying hard drive and it's had many other parts replaced since I bought it new in 2009, first gen Core i7 that was then getting quite long in the tooth, but 4 years in, still on it... It ran an older Ferni based Nvidia GT 610, now deprecated, so it would not work with 11 due to no support for DX X 12 of which 11 requires. This was all in 2023. At that time, support ended for both Ferni and Keplar, Maxwell was still under support, as is Pascal. So now run a GT 1030 as it was one of the very few cards that'll work with the 188W PSU and the confined space of a SFF desktop. I hope to go all the way to the 15th gen Core 7 and Z890 chipset as LGA 1700 is at end of life for upgrading as it stops at the 14th gen Core series CPU's. This will give me an upgrade path, should I need it going forward. Not for gaming, but for content creation.
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