This! Australian law is clearer it seems on this. You get something for a dollar shop your expectations are that is not going to last forever You buy a fridge you can expect 5-10 years so the manufacturer can't say 1 year warranty that is not going the fly. So your 1000-3000 notebook so be expected to last the expected 3-5 years much shorter that the life of the OS support life?

Check the date of the cpu release not the date you think you got it, sure you purchased a notebook 5 years ago but was it on sale as old model and shipped with win 10 or even 8? Cheap is rarely better "poor man mans twice"

But it is now the same as a new i3, new cpus have features in there cpu instructions that you old gen cpu just do not have like sse etc, and the encryption updates for cpu cache. So no is not the same not even close, you cant just count cores or clock speed.

No, go read the ms support page is 10years support from release or 2 years from last service pack/ Build. So from xp we have had over 10 years from its release date, so if you did buy a system that shipped with Windows 10 for the most part you can I place upgrade to win 11 for free and the life cycle starts again, people that had win 7/8 upgraded to win 10 and now complain that sames now 12 years plus systems can't upgrade to win 11 amaze me.

That is incorrect is 8th gen and later so pc from mid 2018

I have one Surface Duo not the Duo 2 and is the single best phone I have ever had and use it as my only and main phone every day. Granted took a week or so to get used to it, but once you get used to running 2 apps at the same time, one on each screen or using the 2nd screen to type long-ish email replies out of the road, you never will go back is like having dual screens on your PC and then going back to single screen, it just hurts. Until you hold and use one you have no idea how amazing it is. I thought with the 2 screens battery life you be a problem when I was ordering it so purchase a power bank at the same time , but no never have used it, battery life is amazing. Also the Duo 1 is at the end of life in the support dates come September https://learn.microsoft.com/en... So bring on the surface duo 3 and take my money. "The king is dead, long life the king"

We support around 700 windows user across multiple environments and small and large business and there is nothing like what you are saying, and cases of instability has in every case been cause by hard ware 80% memory issues, 20% bad drives. In All cases replacement of bad hardware corrected the issue.

Installed Linux mint and hasn't heard from end user, because they now use another MSP for there support after you messed them around instead of using a system that works