No checkbox for Wesley Crusher? 🤔

You don’t have to worry about the alternator going out.

Microsoft put a lot of work into speeding up the boot times with XP. Windows 2000 booted glacially slow by comparison. Though I’d say once booted, 2000 was a bit leaner and quicker.

The thing is, it forced the people making games to release them as a finished, working product, with the bugs (mostly) stamped out.

Today it’s just push something out the door now, and we’ll patch it soak them for even more money with DLC later.

Well, if you’re sticking with Windows, you really have no choice. The sun is rapidly setting on using Windows 7 as a “daily driver” - a lot of new software doesn’t support it and the older versions that work on Windows 7 are getting less and less viable. Windows 8 is in the same boat as Windows 7. Windows 10 goes out of support next year, but you’ve probably got to 2028 or maybe 2029 before you really have to move.

I ended up riding Windows 7 pretty much to the bitter end. Steam dropping Windows 7 support last December was it for the last Windows box. Everything now is running Linux.

I consider Windows 7 the last good version, but I still consider Windows 2000 to be when Microsoft was at the top of their game.

I did the opposite. After one of the big updates, Windows 10 decided it was no longer going to work with the Vista-era drivers for an old Core 2 Duo laptop. To be fair to Microsoft, was I pretty impressed when I initially installed Windows 10 and it accepted those ancient drivers without any complaints on a laptop that was 10 years old at that time.

So I instead installed Manjaro and everything worked just fine.

That it has e-SATA would put it in the Lenovo-era, possibly one of the models that still had the IBM badging.

For the humor-impaired, there were also ThinkPads with an IrDA port too.

Maybe they are counting all the times Microsoft launched a new brand of phone and then unceremoniously killed off about 6 months later?