Re: Laptop replacement

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On 2025-03-27, Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

On 27/03/2025 in message <vs2ptj$3jchh$2@dont-email.me> Lawrence
D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:02:39 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Well I have had pretty good results for MY needs with HP laptops BUT
anything to run Windows 11 seems very expensive. Like £400
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Whereas a Windows ten capable refurbished is under £100

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Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete,
unsupported software?

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I use Windows 8.1 on all my machines that will run it because it allows me
to download updates and install them when convenient to me. Why this
facility doesn't exit on Win 10 goodness knows.
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I see you've been suckered by MSFT marketing bullshit :-)
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Yes and no.  As an IT Manager I described myself as custodian of the
corporate paranoia.  One of the options I had was to check that any machine
connected had the right OS and had all of the patches I considered
essential.  If I had been managing financial or other critical data the
patches might have been added to the critical list within a few days of
release.

It takes about three days for miscreants to download a patch and
reverse-engineer an exploit.  So exploits by skript-kiddies are most likely
three days after a patch.  They get progressively less likely after that.

--
Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
Wigan