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Windows 10 will not be supported from October so what are the choices?
I have a really old all in one computer that I hardly use but if I’m searching for something I prefer to sit at a computer rather than do it on my phone.
Ive looked on line and there are a few work arounds available so it’s likely I will go with one of those rather than fork out on a brand new computer with windows 11 already loaded.
Anyone else have the same problem and if so what did you do?
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I switched to ChromeOS (Chromebook) over a decade ago and have never missed Windows. There were a few growing pains in the early years but now there’s nothing I can’t do on my Chromebook. I find cloud storage much better than local as everything is automatically on my phone as well. It’s far more secure and no more pesky updates, they happen automatically in the background and a reboot takes less than 30 seconds.
If I seem a little strange, that's because I am.
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That particular “CPU” is a mobile chip. It’s designed as a mobile APU. It’s an low end Stoney Ridge APU. Stoney Ridge being a notebook skew of APUs, there’s no desktop variant of it. The desktop variant of AMD low end APUs is called A10 and uses the AM4 socket, not the mobile FT4 BGA socket. BGA sockets are soldered.
The Pentium G630 is Sandy Bridge used in desktops and some laptops.
The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6 core ZEN 3 (2020/1), mid range gaming processor based on AM4 socket in both desktops and laptops. Stoney Ridge/Bristol Ridge (2015/6) 28nm process and 2 cores, compared to 7nm for ZEN3!
As for the recommendation, i don’t know why you recommend an AM4 over a budget AM5 CPU, considering that there’s zero “future proofing” on an AM4 board. Down to not supporting USB4. A decent budget AM5 board plus 7600 makes much more sense. Heck, even a 5600g or 5600gt would make more sense. And i’m saying that coming from a 3800x (to 9800x3d) – “X” skews increase clocks ever so slightly, while increasing power consumption, temps etc. Makes no sense to me in a non-gaming build.
Why recommend Zen 4 architecture when @DumfriesDick already has a decent computer based on ZEN 3 architecture, which he probably bought prior to to the launch of ZEN 4 and likely see him through, it’s like saying why not go for the latest Zen 5 architecture (your always chasing your tail) and imo opinion it’s not worth jumpin one above, every time something new comes out, we’d be bankrupt! Ontop of that, he would have to buy a new motherboard and graphics card, as is not compatible with PCI5.
“X” processors are also for more demanding multitasking, as well as gaming and the higher clock speed % see a similar % rise in temeperature. Naw whether DD does gaming or demanding tasks, I don’t know, but dare bet he doesn’t tickle it’s capabilties
Moved my main PC and laptops over to Win11 Pro about a month ago. Lot’s of things to remove and “adjust” using registry hacks like full Win7/10 style right click menus, removing notifications, last programs used etc. showing in Start menu and other Win11 bloatware.
Once that was done I made an Acronis image and loaded it onto all the laptops so same user profile, desktop settings and programs on each, documents etc all synchronised and backed up to Google Drive as well as a separate Gen4 NVMe external drive via USB/Thunderbolt 4. Means I can do a full Acronis image (about 60Gb) in well under 5 minutes.
Switched offline cloud storage from Dropbox to Google Drive, three times the free storage capacity (15Gb) and access from any amount of devices.
So far Win11 is running OK, not happy with a few things like clicking time/date doesn’t show the clock when it opens up and there’s a useless notification box that also comes up but can’t be removed. Apparently the next update should give the option to change both options.
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
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