I am still using a Dell Inspiron bought in 2012 with Win 7. Except for a few scraches and dead pixels, everything still works great. I could do office tasks, watch movies, and play casual games fine. Dell laptops really have amazing durability.
In my experience anything that wasn't low end when it brand new and isn't made out of plastic will last a while. When I was in high school I was using a Vista era Latitude with a dual core and 4GB of ram and had very few issues. Would be a different story today but I was able to do it during the late 2010s.
Great video! You do the same stuff like me, I just dont upload it. lol. I have two old Dell Precision. M6400 with a Core2Extreme and a M4800. I actually got 3 Operating systems running on the M6400... XP, Vista, & Win7! It's great! They are great old machines. It was a task to get all three on but it was well worth it! For drivers, especially doing what you do, I found that SnappyDriver is a MUST! It finds all the drivers! Ive only ever come across maybe one or two that it doesn't have. If you do a complete download its almost 40Gigs but you will never have driver issues again. Especially with older machines like these! Keep it up! I was thinking of starting stuff like this! I just got my hands on HP's Premium HDX laptops, both 16 and 18"! They are awesome!
Triple booting operating systems sounds like a huge headache, must've been a pain to set up. I'll definitely need to look into those drivers since most manufacturers aren't the best with providing drivers for old hardware. Haven't worked on an HDX before but they look like interesting machines.
@ The BIOS settings were the pain. But once they are set everything went so smoothly. Vista and 7 on a partitioned SSD and XP on a mechanical drive! Then snappy driver and legacy update! And yes because of their ageost manufacturers are removing those downloads..
I am still using a Dell Inspiron bought in 2012 with Win 7. Except for a few scraches and dead pixels, everything still works great. I could do office tasks, watch movies, and play casual games fine. Dell laptops really have amazing durability.
In my experience anything that wasn't low end when it brand new and isn't made out of plastic will last a while. When I was in high school I was using a Vista era Latitude with a dual core and 4GB of ram and had very few issues. Would be a different story today but I was able to do it during the late 2010s.
Great video! You do the same stuff like me, I just dont upload it. lol. I have two old Dell Precision. M6400 with a Core2Extreme and a M4800. I actually got 3 Operating systems running on the M6400... XP, Vista, & Win7! It's great! They are great old machines. It was a task to get all three on but it was well worth it! For drivers, especially doing what you do, I found that SnappyDriver is a MUST! It finds all the drivers! Ive only ever come across maybe one or two that it doesn't have. If you do a complete download its almost 40Gigs but you will never have driver issues again. Especially with older machines like these! Keep it up! I was thinking of starting stuff like this! I just got my hands on HP's Premium HDX laptops, both 16 and 18"! They are awesome!
Triple booting operating systems sounds like a huge headache, must've been a pain to set up. I'll definitely need to look into those drivers since most manufacturers aren't the best with providing drivers for old hardware. Haven't worked on an HDX before but they look like interesting machines.
@ The BIOS settings were the pain. But once they are set everything went so smoothly. Vista and 7 on a partitioned SSD and XP on a mechanical drive! Then snappy driver and legacy update! And yes because of their ageost manufacturers are removing those downloads..