19 Oct
2025
19 Oct
'25
3:54 p.m.
On Oct 17, 2025, at 12:21 PM, cz via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Interesting. Bitlocker keys work fine on the X61, they are stored in the TPM and are
pretty secure.
I really need to try this. And yes, there are a billion reasons to dunk on Windows, but
the fact that the OS runs on a 19 year old laptop is still not too bad. My AT&T7300
can't match this, nor can any of the Apple products (well you can hack the installer
for Intel core duo stuff but it's not really supported and Apple is seriously turning
perfectly good older hardware into trash)
Chris
On 10/17/2025 10:58 AM, Christian Kennedy via cctalk wrote:
For what it is worth (probably not much). I have had good luck using Open Source Legacy
Patcher on some rather old Apple hardware. Fun to keep those funky little 2013 Mac Pro
“Trash Cans” running.
Frank
On 10/17/25 05:34, cz via cctalk wrote:
That should be interesting. The problem with Windows 11 on older hardware is the
insistence upon a TPM-2.0 compliant TPM. There have been some fitful work-arounds when a
1.2 TPM is installed, but with no TPM hardware I seriously doubt you can convince that
steaming pile of crap to install, particularly since they seem to have decided to store
the BitLocker keys in the TPM.
This just seems like reason 1E+32 to avoid the Windows ecosystem when possible.
Is there
ANY reason why windows N can't work with legacy drivers from Windows N-1?
For what it's worth, Windows 10 runs fine on an IBM Thinkpad X61 in 64 bit mode with
no issues. 2007 system means it's running fine 19 years later. I should fire it up and
upgrade to Windows 11.....