Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot
by gambiting on Sunday June 27, 2021 @05:31AM
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Yes, except that Windows 10 installs and runs absolutely fine on a Core2Duo laptop from 2008(I know because I have one).
It might not be officially supported but it works just fine. And with an SSD and 8GB of ram it actually runs pretty well.
And actually, MacOS runs on much older hardware with some simple patches. I also have a late-2008 unibody MacBook Pro that runs Catalina and receives latest security updates. Installing it was a tiny bit complicated but again, it works.
By the time Windows 10 support is EOL (2025), those laptops and CPUs will be 8 years old. Right now, Monterey (successor of Big Sur (aka macOS 11) won't suppport MBP 2013. So when Catalina (aka macOS 10.15 / last macOS 10.x version) is EOL, which should happen next year, then MBP is only supported by Big Sur which is probably lasting one more year compared to Catalina. So in two years, the 8 year old MBP 2013 is no longer supported. While its already only receiving security and reliability fixes since that's what Big Sur and Catalina receive. All in all that's 10 years of support, quite massive (but then again there have been very little progress on the CPU performance between 2014 and 2020). You can still run some other OS on any of this hardware, such as Linux or ChomeOS.