19 Oct
2025
19 Oct
'25
4:40 p.m.
Gee, All the macs I have are old enough to be grandparents.
On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM Frank Ventura via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> 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 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:
> On 10/17/25 05:34, cz via cctalk wrote:
>>> 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.....
> 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.