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My parents still have one. I had to tell them how to unplug the Internet from their router so they could power it up and get their photos off.

Who sells a product that at purchase time brags about it lasting a long time, but then when it needs support it is too old?

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Intel does (or at least did) do this too, by not providing cpu microcode updates for some cpu models. "Only a small percentage of people use those..."

Thus our "Not a single damn thing from Intel" policy for the last few years. FUCK that crowd. :(

Never, ever again.

Does AMD do better on that?

So far it seems to be "yes". At least, none of the AMD gear we're using has had this happen.

Hopefully AMD doesn't go down that same dark path.

Pretty interested about this since I want to upgrade my hardware soon, do you have any sources (for both brands)?

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