The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
yea. it might be a good time to buy ‘older’ hardware, but ‘refurbs’ that are blessed by microsoft (gen 8+) are already higher in price than they should be.
there’s also a bunch of sellers everywhere selling the old stuff with ‘windows 11’ at stupid high prices, too. i’ve even seen sellers trying to pass off specs like 2nd-4th gens as ‘new’, calling the old chips ‘reclaimed’ or some bullshit.
yea. it might be a good time to buy ‘older’ hardware, but ‘refurbs’ that are blessed by microsoft (gen 8+) are already higher in price than they should be.
there’s also a bunch of sellers everywhere selling the old stuff with ‘windows 11’ at stupid high prices, too. i’ve even seen sellers trying to pass off specs like 2nd-4th gens as ‘new’, calling the old chips ‘reclaimed’ or some bullshit.