If you have a Lenovo computer get rid of it

[Anonymous]

I'm still running Windows 7 Pro...  I actually built my current system myself with the last chip that would run 7 properly, on purpose.  In my case, that was an i7-6700K I utilized.



I will run my current tower as long as I need to...



So far, so good.

[Anonymous]

In my case, both the Dell and the Acer laptops were Windows 7 machines. Of the two, the Dell Precision is the newer and more rugged of the two, purchased at around the time Windows 8 was shipping. I had the option of Haswell architecture, but rumours that Intel were skimping on build quality in the absence of any real competition from AMD at the time convinced me to choose Sandy Bridge instead. As I understand, it was the last generation of CPUs which shipped with soldered heat spreaders and considering how hard I tend to run my machines, I wasn't prepared to risk a setup that might well brick itself due to the poor heat transference of substandard thermal compound on the CPU die and unwilling to try my hand at a de-lidding to replace it with anything better.



Acer and Dell are both still performing well enough on Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Pro respectively and with minimal servicing. In the Dell's case I replaced the screen a couple of years ago, the keyboard last year and at some point I swapped the original drive out for a Samsug SSD and replaced the optical drive with a hard drive caddy and Seagate Firecuda. I'm amazed the damn thing is still spinning up to be honest, I've managed to utterly fry lesser machines in the space of two years, but this beast just keeps on trucking no matter how hard I thrash it.



I think I'll donate it to a good cause. A mate of mine recently had his recording equipment stolen and I don't see any point in letting it gather dust on the shelf.