Speaking of floppies, we must say that MS original floppies were almost indestructible, to the extent that many computer technicians, who worked in computer shops, and had an overflow of old copies of win 3.x and Win95, used them to store important things and frequently used tools and utilities. No Idea about who produced them for MS, but I have yet to see a more robust floppy media, even the most expensive ones from best brands like 3M/Imation, TDK, Verbatim and so on.
Used the brands you mentioned, also BASF. Still have sh*tloads of them, including 3.5"HD 1440K, 3.5"DD 720K, 5.25"HD 1.2M, 5.25"DD 360K, even one 8" floppy left, lol.
There was a lot of rebranding/rebadging. Have a few ones from "Virgin" (the ones from Virgin Games). Best to stop the off-topic discussion here, that's not what the thread is about.
Dell 6530 laptop. 2012 with latest 2019 BIOS. I5 duel core with Hyperthreading, thinks it's a 4 core. At 2.8, overclocks itself up to 3.5. 8 gigs of 1t Samsung ram (can't take 16), 500gig Samsung evo 560 SSD, upgraded to wireless AC and new hinges on the lid. It's an old monster. Runs 11 very well, not at all a dog, not playing games or video editing on it. I threw out or gave away older things. Main rigs are way beyond. Ryzen is best bang for the buck though I like both AMD and Intel. When things get too old it wastes your time but I understand the current economic climate. It kills me that my ancient laptop is faster than most people have ever used "My Laptop is an I7!" Ya, with a 4200 RPM Hard drive and 4 gigs of slow RAM. But I don't think windows 11 has any more system requirement than it did in Vista 64 bit. Or well not really
It does indeed, with 'Microsoft Bing' stamped on your wallpaper, and Vista Widgets lol , hell, I'm going back in time
Lenovo Ideapad 100 bought in 2015. I Subscribed to windows insider program. Intel® Core™ i3-5005U Dual Core 4GB of RAM memory originally. I Upgraded to 8GB. 5400rpm HDD originally. Upgraded to 1TB SSD. Nvidia GeForce 920M | Intel® HD Graphics 5500
Possible. But frankly I hear that sentence since Win 1.0. People always compare the old system, with a ton of sw installed, and 2 years of cruft, with the new OS, installed 10 minutes before. The only notable exception was win 8 over win7. Win 8 was (and still is) way faster than seven. And "as even w/o the drivers".... Obviously a system w/o the drivers is faster than one with all the drivers installed, less things to load, less things to manage, fewer services to start an so on. Unless we are taking of Win9x where the lack of proper HDD controller drivers, leaded to the HDD working in PIO mode that was hugely slower and CPU taxing over the proper DMA mode.
Great, great machine. One of the most powerful machines that came with the invaluable 16:10 display, before the world went crazy with the useless 16:9 ones. Too bad the the equation 16:10 = no Core CPU is applicable there as well. The only notable exception is my e6410 which come with a i3/i5/i7 CPU depite having a (14'') 16:10 display. It was a corner case given the larger e6510 and the smaller e4310 were already moved to the 16/9 craze.
This week I made Windows 11 running on two old XP machine. Both are ECS mainboards, GF7100PVT-M3 and GF7050, were running XP, with DDR2 2GB and 4GB respectively. The ROMs are IDE interface, NOT support ACHI. Also, the mainboards NOT support USB boot. The hardware was my main headache prior to my install. No way to boot. Eventually, I did boot via USB DVD ROM with SATA interface. Windows 11 is running terribly slow on these old XP machine (in my opinion, only computer with SSD can go Window 10/11). I will play awhile. Looks Windows 7 fits them better, at DDR2 2GB to 4GB. https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...8-2022-on-uefi-gpt.83357/page-21#post-1760949