If you’ve bought or built a new PC within the last eight or so years, then it’ll almost certainly have a TPM chip, but the older the hardware, the less likely it’ll be present or the right version.
That meant when Windows 11 appeared with its TPM 2.0 requirement, an enormous swathe of perfectly viable PCs were left without the chance to upgrade to the latest version of Windows
Linux people: Linux would never do you dirty like this.
Mac people: Whoa, they let you use EIGHT YEAR OLD hardware? Lucky!
Linux people: Linux would never do you dirty like this.
Mac people: Whoa, they let you use EIGHT YEAR OLD hardware? Lucky!
Also Linux: running in 13 year old apple hardware.
I have a 16 year old ThinkPad running an NVR server for 4 cameras. It’s not happy about it but it works >_<
But over in the phone world:
Android phone :: two years old? We don’t do updates any more. Buy a new phone.
Google/Samsung :: if you buy our expensive range, we can do five years of updates. Isn’t that great!
iPhone SE 1st gen :: still going strong with updates after 8 years.
Google and Samsung do 7 years now. My OG SE hasn’t received an update in a while.
Has it not? I saw one come a week or so ago.
I’ll check mine🙂