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The main issue especially with laptops is that they are built for a given version of Windows. The drivers tend to get frozen in time and you can find that the configuration doesn't run optimally on a newer operating system.
For example, I bought a laptop with 8.1 and upgraded later to 10. The driver for a radio switch inside the box wasn't available for 10 and I lost that function.
Andy
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You may have similar experiences with desktop (/tower cabinet) PCs. In the Windows 9x days, I had an SPDIF interface card, card and drivers delivered by a single company. The company decided to close down their hardware development, specializing in driver software. This did not include drivers for their own cards! So when Win XP came along, I saw the company thriving on making 32 bit drivers for lots of other hardware, but not for their old card that I had bought a few years earlier.
The obvious difference from a laptop is that with a tower cabinet, I can throw out that old, now useless, SPDIF card. The problem at the time was that there were no other vendors of similar cards. So I was without SPDIF until I replaced my mainboard with one that provided SPDIF. Replacing the mainboard isn't that different from buying a new laptop.
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I've gone through all my bigger "installed" apps, and "moved" them to another drive when the option was available. Also, deleted all "old" Windows SDK's that get superceded but not deleted with newer releases. Has kept my C: drive going.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Nelek wrote: for less powerful computers
How dare you!!
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I wasn't... it was @Kent-Sharkey 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Obituary - The Wrong Time[^]
I've been pretty busy yesterday, but better late than never!
Obituary is a legendary death metal band, and as such I've known their name for about twenty years, but never really listened to them.
Their new album got good reviews and one magazine even called it their best release in their nearly 40-year history, so I decided to give it a listen.
Since they're from Florida I expected it to be like Morbid Angel or Cannibal Corpse, but I was pleasantly surprised!
I certainly did not expect mid-tempo and groovy death metal.
The album's been on repeat ever since.
Sound of the week! 
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peterkm wrote: Psycroptic - Divine Council (FULL album 2022) - YouTube
Nice one!
I think I listened to some of the singles before this was released, but never heard the full album.
Already listened to it three times this weekend 
peterkm wrote: Progressive Psytrance mix January 2023 - YouTube
Nice one too, but I'm somehow more in a metal state of mind
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Quote: metal state of mind
Great... good to know 
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good .. but, in my case, it seems that I am addicted to "more bpm"
and ... psssst ... I keep something related to it for next SOTW, really a lot of bpm ...
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David O'Neil wrote: GARSI - Live @ DJanes.net Bali
Very nice!
And the music's good too
David O'Neil wrote: The̲ W̲ho - W̲ho's N̲ext. The first song is an all-time-great!
Yeah, I know the album and the song.
Good stuff, but not too often.
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coldest day here in upstate New York in a long time.
My boiler at the house is working its butt off to keep us warm at 65 degrees F.
Fireplace in the game room is roaring.
Old house with base-board heating - ugh.
I just noticed that the brass front door hinges are frosted over completely white on the inside of the house. Some of the windows where the seal is not so tight is frosted over as well inside the house. One can only guess how much energy I am losing to these poor seals and cracks. You win some and you lose some - it could be a lot worse.
modified 4-Feb-23 7:35am.
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The wind chill here in Ottawa was -40 yesterday. That's the temperature at which C and F coincide.
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yeah, I don't even want to think about temps in areas north of me. No thank you. You can have it.
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In Montreal area, we currently have -30 (wind chill -41). But cheer up: in Resolute is "only" -34 so it cannot get much worse 
Mircea
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ahhh 'nother Montréaler...
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Move to Florida. You will be welcome here! As thousands of your fellow New Yorkers can testify. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 4-Feb-23 9:04am.
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In New Orleans, when it gets down to 42:F We all freeze to Death. 
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A long time ago, when I live in Los Angeles, CA, 45 was considered cold, too. Little did I know...
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Same in Montréal, 3 days at around -25c
I wanted to go for a walk on the mountain, but I can't find my long johns; just too cold otherwise.
But from tomorrow, we'll have an above 0c weather for at least a week.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Where I grew up and went to school, we were kicked out of the buildings for 10 / 20 minutes between classes, to breathe fresh air and have some physical activity - but if temperature went below -20C, we were allowed to stay in the corridors. Lots of us went outdoors anyway; we didn't consider it to be 'real winter' at much less cold than that.
There is an important side to it: The winter time air was almost as dry as a desert. And 'wind' was some strange, unknown phenomenon that we could read about in the newspapers, something they had in places remote from ours 
Bottom line: The temperature alone doesn't tell very much. Humidity and wind are essential. That's why we refer to 'wind chill factor'. But it is relevant only to the human experience of the cold!
One thing that lots of people are not aware of: The 'wind chill' has to do with evaporation from your skin when you are outdoors. That cools the skin down, and may give you frost bites. But, your house doesn't sweat. It doesn't loose heat due to evaporation from its outer surfaces. So your heating requirements depends on the air temperature, but not on the wind chill factor!
If you have an extremely poorly insulated house, you might have a very slight effect of the wind: In absolute windstill, heat loss might heat the surrounding air to lay as a slightly warmed blanket around your house. But even the slightest puff of wind will blow it away; the effect is so small it isn't worth considering. If you insist that wind cools down your house: Yes, that may be true, if you have ventilation that will let more hot air out of the house when it is blowing. Or for that sake, any hot air leakage at all, even if is was never intended to be 'ventilation', where the wind can suck hot air out of the building.
For at least 40-50 years, Norwegian building standards have required walls to be absolutely air tight, inpenetrable by wind. For not quite as long, passive ventilation through vents in the walls have been banned: All air replacement should be centralized, so that the heat energy of any hot air leaving the building can be transferred to the fresh, cold air being sucked in. I'd think that such requirements sound crazy in Florida
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