![]() But I have one Ivy Bridge generation laptop and 2 Sandy Bridge Laptops and one Intel First generation Core i series “Arrandale” Mobile core i3 based laptop. I’m sure going to wait and see for a few months at least after Jan 2020 and continue to use windows 7 without security updates unless there is some zero day actively being exploited in the wild. So there is not much chance on any Laptop OEMs going through any extra expense of re-vetting /re-certifying some 5-10 years old laptops that the OEM’s sold in an effort to get that mostly legacy hardware’s Integrated/Discrete Mobile Graphics dirvers working properly on windows 10. The Laptop’s OEM and GPU Maker work with Microsoft to get that all vetted/certified for whatevr windows OS version that was in its mainstream OS support at that specific time frame when that laptop SKU was manufactured. Laptop OEMs mostly are creating some custom variants of the AMD/Nvidia provided graphics driver package and the CPU makers’ integrated Graphics also to get all that working properly for switchable(Integrated/Discrete Mobile) graphics on the OEM’s laptop SKUs and the laptop’s OEM is the one having to take the GPU maker’s graphics drivers and add a compatability layer on top that tagrets the Laptop OEM’s specific make/model of Laptop SKU. And for Laptops in the first place, it’s the Laptop’s OEM that works with AMD and Nvidia(Discrete Mobile GPUs) and Intel/AMD also for the Integrated Graphics(on the CPU’s processor die) that ship with most OEMs laptop products. Now many of these AMD and Nvidia Mobile/Laptop GPUs are mostly in their legacy status and no longer getting any new graphics driver support or new updates from AMD/Nvidia. ![]() Microsoft needs to be required to offer the consumer the same extended windows 7 security extnded update package at a fair price if that consumer’s laptop hardware(GPUs and Integrated Graphics mostly is the issue) is not able run properly in an OEM vetted/certifiable manner for windows 10.īoth AMD and Nvidia make GPUs for laptops(Discrete Mobile GPUs as opposed to integrated GPUs) and there are many GPU generations that shipped on laptops that where only vetted/certified for windows 7/8/8.1. So why should any PC/laptop hardware be rendered unprotected if that hardware can not be certified/vetted for windows 10. OEM laptop graphics drivers are the most problematic with the GPU’s OEM and the Laptop’s OEM working together to get that hardware certified for the OS that was in mainstream support at the time the laptop was scheduled for consumer release. So any OEM PC or Laptop is going to get at its design/certification phase, only after the hardware is ready, certified for the OS that was in active(Mainstream Support) use at the device’s time of manufacture.Īnd any laptop/laptop’s hardware is only going to be vetted/certified by its OEM for that one OS version(that was in mainstream support) at that laptop’s time of manufacture. But some laptops do ship with Socketed CPUs(Business Grade Laptops mostly) and there are the portable workstation(laptops) that ship with both socketed CPUs and an upgradable GPUs on an MXM card.īut really the vast majority of laptops are not CPU/GPU hardware upgradable and if that old laptop hardware(The Discrete Mobile GPU hardware mostly) can never work properly on Windows 10/Windows 10’s WDDM(Windows Display Driver Model) that’s a problem. CPUs on laptops are moctly BGA also and soldered to the Laptop’s MB. So laptops, more than PCs that are hardware upgradeable, come with discrete mobile GPUs that are BGA packaged and soldered onto the laptop’s Motherboard. ![]() And maybe Microsoft needs to be legally required to offer that to any consumers with older PC/Laptop hardware that can not ever be expected to make the transition to windows 10. Well for enterprise/volume licensing customers with windows 7 there is the Extended Security updates until 2023 option.
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