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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

If your Win 10 was fully licensed, Win 11 is free and customizable.

Apple upgrades often just orphans older computers, and not that old of computers. I have a 10 year old computer that I keep running for a few of the software packages that are silly expensive, and still function fine. That computer is rather slow after using my new monster computer, but fully functional. It does not have the CPU needed for Win 11, so I guess in a few years when Win 10 is no longer supported it will be an 12 or 13 year old orphan. If it still works, I will still use it until the hardware dies. The hard drives themselves are mirrored, and when one drive dies, I just slap in a new drive and let it rebuild.

Your computers don't really count as they are anything but normal.

My wife is running a 7 or 8 year old Apple laptop, the least powerful one they made at the time, and it's running the latest release. 7 or 8 years is a LONG time in the computer world. It has not been my experience that Apple orphans stuff until it can't keep up. I did have (think I still may somewhere) a first or second gen iPad. Yes, that was eventually orphaned, but then it was old and woefully underpowered for the new stuff, so not a big deal. It still ran (runs) the last iOS that it ran.