Microsoft Will Stop Supporting Windows 7 One Year From Today (Jan. 14, 2020)

[SmithOp]

The best update I every made was replacing the boot drive with an SSD. I'd never buy a new computer without one, desktop or laptop.

I did all mine a few years ago, SSD are crazy cheap now.


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[MrockStar]

I'm a simple man so let me say it another way. I think it is outrageous that Microsoft abandon the 40.3% of Windows users (Aug 2018 numbers) who are using Windows7. But I guess I shouldn't really care as I switched to a ChromeBook about 6 months ago...

George

They are not abandoned, there is a free upgrade to windows 10 available. Also Windows 8.1 still has years of support left.

 

[Bucky]

I did all mine a few years ago, SSD are crazy cheap now.


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How true. I paid $55 for a 500GB Crucial SSD. Will never have a desktop or laptop again without one.

 

[Bill4728]

Because I really don’t use them often and really don’t care, I upgraded our laptop and two desktops to Windows 10. But, just last week I finally upgraded one of my desktops to a refurbished HP i7. Dropped an SSD into it and cannot believe how fast the thing is. May start using it more often now.

So these are the same SSD cards we used 10 years ago in our digital cameras which were about 1 gig Right?

And you can change your startup setting to boot from one of these?

TIA

 

[artringwald]

So these are the same SSD cards we used 10 years ago in our digital cameras which were about 1 gig Right?

And you can change your startup setting to boot from one of these?

TIA

The cards for cameras are SD cards (Secure Digital). SSD (solid-state drive) is a disk drive replacement. I can come in the same size enclosure as a small SATA drive, or as a M.2 PCI Express SSD, which is about the size of a stick of gum and plugs into a slot on one of the newer motherboards. SSD's are much faster and much larger capacity than most SD cards.

 

[Bill4728]

thanks

I didn't realize that the image on the left was 2.5 x 4 inches in size I first thought it was maybe 1 x 1.5 (or the size of a big SD card) which was why I thought they were like a SD card

 

[artringwald]

thanks

I didn't realize that the image on the left was 2.5 x 4 inches in size I first thought it was maybe 1 x 1.5 (or the size of a big SD card) which was why I thought they were like a SD card

The only reason it's as big as it is, is so it will fit in existing mounting brackets of old computers. They even have adapters so it will fit in the space for a large hard disk drive.