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cogman10today at 1:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Other than needing more RAM, all the hardware that works for Win 7 will work with Windows 10 and 11. Most software should as well.

Windows 7 drivers are compatible with windows 10 and 11 so there really isn't a reason you couldn't continue using basically any hardware after an upgrade.


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close04today at 4:02 PM

I was thinking of the odd XP era PC which could run W7 but just barely. Those would be truly outdated machines with no reason to be around a livingroom.

I have netbooks which ran XP ok but W10 is a pain to run on them, or tablets with more modern Atom CPUs which ran W10 ok at the beginning but by the latest update they became close to unusable.