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   On Thu, 27 Mar 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   > On 27/03/2025 06:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:02:39 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Well I have had pretty good results for MY needs with HP laptops BUT   
   >>> anything to run Windows 11 seems very expensive. Like £400   
   >>>   
   >>> Whereas a Windows ten capable refurbished is under £100   
   >>   
   >> Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete,   
   >> unsupported software?   
   >   
   > I'd trust it to Linux.   
   > Actually that's MS bullshit.   
   > The greatest security risk from a laptop is leaving it on a train.   
   >   
   > If its 'mission critical' it doesn't go on a laptop. Period. Or you get   
   > sacked   
   > This isn't Donald Trumps administration, this is real life   
      
   Also note that if you build around the constraints of crappy hardware with   
   technologies such as backups, clusters, active/active clusters etc. they   
   can live very well on crappy hardware.   
      
   Of course this is just theoretical, and you collect your requirements, and   
   SLA:s towards your customers, and then make an informed decision.   
      
   Since I have backups of my laptop, and could go to the store and buy a new   
   one in about 60 minutes, and do a restore of my company documents within   
   another 60 minutes, I in theory, have no problems with running my company   
   on "crappy" hardware.   
      
   Due to convenience, I tend to run it on maximum 3-4 year old laptops, and   
   my SaaS product runs on refurbished servers in the cloud.   
      
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