Just migrated a customer's system drive from a Dell Optiplex 780 to a Dell Optiplex 3010.
Yes, people are really using systems these old to get work done, as unbelieve as that may seem to Youtube gaming bros chasing the latest release.
The 3010 will be a significant upgrade for him He would have kept using the 780 had it not been for the motherboard not recognizing the new CMOS battery. A loud fan was also bothersome. So a number of issues that added up.
Updating the BIOS on the 3010 now.
This customer is on Windows 10. He has no care about it being out of service, as his main machine up to this point has been another Optiplex 780 with Windows 7. Now that some applications he needs are starting to not work on Windows 7, he'd like to move up to Windows 10.
Of course, I think the 3010 is better suited to run Linux or BSD.
#tech #dell #optiplex
