> On Oct 17, 2025, at 12:21 PM, cz via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting. Bitlocker keys work fine on the X61, they are stored in the TPM > and are pretty secure. > > I really need to try this. And yes, there are a billion reasons to dunk on > Windows, but the fact that the OS runs on a 19 year old laptop is still not > too bad. My AT&T7300 can't match this, nor can any of the Apple products > (well you can hack the installer for Intel core duo stuff but it's not really > supported and Apple is seriously turning perfectly good older hardware into > trash) > > Chris > > > On 10/17/2025 10:58 AM, Christian Kennedy via cctalk wrote: >> On 10/17/25 05:34, cz via cctalk wrote: >>>> Is there ANY reason why windows N can't work with legacy drivers from >>>> Windows N-1? >>> >>> For what it's worth, Windows 10 runs fine on an IBM Thinkpad X61 in 64 bit >>> mode with no issues. 2007 system means it's running fine 19 years later. I >>> should fire it up and upgrade to Windows 11..... >> That should be interesting. The problem with Windows 11 on older hardware >> is the insistence upon a TPM-2.0 compliant TPM. There have been some fitful >> work-arounds when a 1.2 TPM is installed, but with no TPM hardware I >> seriously doubt you can convince that steaming pile of crap to install, >> particularly since they seem to have decided to store the BitLocker keys in >> the TPM. >> This just seems like reason 1E+32 to avoid the Windows ecosystem when >> possible. >
For what it is worth (probably not much). I have had good luck using Open Source Legacy Patcher on some rather old Apple hardware. Fun to keep those funky little 2013 Mac Pro “Trash Cans” running. Frank
