Something is seriously messed up then. I have a 7-year-old Lenovo laptop with i5 CPU which cost around $800 back then, and it still plays youtube videos just fine under Windows 7.
Regarding the premature demise of the $1500 4 year old laptop, I don’t think it’s a software issue, it seems more like a cooling issue where the system can’t dump enough heat and downclocks itself , suggesting part of the cooling system has failed . If you open it up, blow out the dust, check that the fans work, then refresh the TIM, thermal pads, and consider copper shims where appropriate it should perform more like it did previously if not better. It could easily be something as simple as fluff blocking an intake so maybe with a bit of work this system could be restored to functional use.
As for Windows 10 support, that should also be good on a reasonably high end laptop made in the last 4 years - my partners Lenovo is much older yet has Windows 10 drivers - *nix support should be fairly good as well. If you can’t find drivers for that specific model, a good tip is to look for enterprise grade systems built around the same time as they are often contractually required to support those for much longer than consumer systems, and they often use compatible drivers.
I blow out every year the coolers with compressed air of my laptops, I did it like a month ago when problems started, but it didn’t help, the fans run and move a decent amount of air and heat
I will put the original saved OS backup over the SDD when I am finished with moving, and then will do stress test with Prime95 and GPU benchmark to see if it is still bad
I had also in the past 4 years on my Laptops
- 2 times the graphics card replaced under guarantee (DELL and XMG)
I gave my 2. last Laptop 2000$ to my dad when it was also about 3 years old, but it simply died by main board failure when he had it less than a year, I sold the SSD, CPU and Ram for like 250 bucks, graphics card was a fast NVIDIA but integrated in the main board
This is mainly the reason I am going back to desktop PC, you can replace dead components
-single core IPC of new Ryzen is acceptable now, not too far from intel, i doubt that you will notice this difference in daily using
in gaming, some latest benchmarks (with latest BIOS. it’s new CPU, so BIOS must be updated to optimize them obviously), show that Ryzen is equal or better than intel
-and to crush Intel CPU, you dont need custom Water Cooling, actually you can use stock fan, it’s much better than the intel one
I definitely plan to go noctua air cooler for my next build.
Currently I have a large Cryorig air cooler for my i5 6600k and I’m a big fan. I don’t trust most AIOs long-term just in the rare event they go bad.
I have never been able to get atmel studio 7 to run on ANY device. Not my win10 pc or win7. Studio 6 will run on windows 7, or a windows 7 pc upgraded to windows 10 but I’ve never had it working on a windows 10 fresh install.
So now I wiped my old laptop installed new Win10 on it and installed all drivers
Benchmark result is devastating, seems there is something not right with the GPU
really low quality graphics 3D Mark score even way below Office 2013 PC
561 where it should be like 26,000