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Desktop screenshot of Windows 11 Build 25915 successfully running on AMD Phenom X4 9600 installed in ASUS M3N78-VM motherboard with NVIDIA nForce 720a (MCP78S) chipset.
Desktop screenshot of macOS 27 Golden Gate Developer Beta 4, showing the Launchpad and the non-Liquid Glass style macOS Dock at the bottom.
This AMI BIOS menu uses nearly the same design used by AwardBIOS.
Big fan blowing inside of side of a computer case meme captioned leaked image of Apple’s servers when they release a new OS update.
Screenshot of Windows 11 Version 25H2 running in a virtual machine on a host that uses AMD Phenom X4 9600, a CPU lacking SSE 4.2.
Device driver software was not successfully installed, and the device name is entirely blanked out.
God hates this shitty icon (referring to the X (Formerly Twitter) logo), it looks like a porn page.
Internet Options showing TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 is enabled.
Desktop Screenshot of Internet Explorer 11 says The page can't be displayed. Turn on TLS 1.0, TLS, 1.1, and TLS 1.2 in Advanced Settings. If this error persists, it is possible that this site uses an unsupported protocol or cipher suite such as RC4 which is not considered secure.
Serious question: Why hasn't Apple modernized app installation yet?
Desktop screenshot of Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.12 installer in Windows 11.
Screenshot of the iOS 15 Home Screen on iPhone SE 1st generation. Some app icons on the home screen use the Liquid Glass design language such as Firefox, Flacbox, Threads, and Bluesky.
Photo of a post "It's been 20 years since Windows 98 and Windows ME reached end of life." showing two photos in small desktop resolution on iPhone SE 1st generation.
Desktop screenshot of Windows 98
Mozilla decided to extend support to ESR 115 only on Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 up to March 2027.
Desktop screenshot of the Main Menu of Counter Strike 2, running in Windows 7.
Some messages removed from a suspended account.
Desktop screenshot of macOS 27 Developer Beta 3 with launchbad-revived ran, causes the macOS dock to not appear and Launchpad app won't open.
Desktop screenshot of macOS 27 Golden Gate Developer Beta 3 without the Liquid Glass elements enabled, there's some quirks with it such as of the missing blur background for the dock and notifications.
Desktop screenshot of Windows NT 5.0 Build 1773 showing the Found New Hardware Wizard dialog saying The hardware installation is complete and also saying Windows did not complete installation of the device.
Desktop screenshot showing the Add or Remove Programs and User Accounts Control Panel applet being shown they're HTML Applications as their resources can be accessed in Internet Explorer web browser in Windows XP such as the Frequency of Use definition page and User Account creation page.
Desktop screenshot of 7-Zip version 26.02 running in Windows NT 5.0 Build 1796
Desktop screenshot of 7-Zip version 26.02 running in Windows 2000 RTM.
A screenshot of YouTube video upload confirmation email from YouTube about Windows XP Startup Sound slowed down to 24 hours, from July 1st, 2016.
Screenshot of the new Windows 11 Setup GUI introduced since version 24H2, in the Select setup option page, there's a link to use "previous version of setup" located at the bottom left corner. Another image added on top shows when attempted to install from SWM across multiple CDs, it shows an error message saying Windows 11 installation has failed.
iOS file picker in the Download folder, it says Content Unavailable. The folder contents could not be displayed because of an unknown error.
Desktop screenshot of macOS 27 Golden Gate with the Launchpad opened, it looks exactly the same as it was in macOS 15 Sequoia
An eBay listing from June 2021 showing a TPM 2.0 module costing $99 and $11 in shipping.
Windows 10 support has ended. You can enroll in ESU any time until the program ends on October 12, 2027. If you’re already enrolled, your coverage will automatically continue through that date—no action needed.
Google AI overview says No. Windows 7 cannot natively run on an original Pentium 1 processor. The Pentium 1 lacks support for the PAE (Physical Address Extension) and SSE2 instruction sets, which are hard-coded hardware requirements for Windows 7 to boot. The minimum required processor for Windows 7 is a 1 GHz CPU. Furthermore, Windows 7 requires at least 1 GB of RAM for 32-bit versions, while original Pentium motherboards are strictly limited to much lower memory capacities (often around 128 MB or 256 MB). Then the actual search results below the ai overview shows a YouTube video from NTDEV running Windows 7 on Pentium 1 clocked at 166 MHz.
Desktop screenshot of Windows 11 Version 26H2 transformed into Windows 7, it sports the Windows 7 Aero Glass theme, the actual start menu and taskbar from Windows 7, there's also Windows 7 icons applied too.
Desktop screenshot of Windows 11 with a custom theme applied that looks like Windows 7's Aero glass.
Screenshot of the Remote Desktop Connection information dialog, under Client details, it says Local OS Windows 10 IoT Enterprise x64 (10.0, Build 29613).
Screenshot of an End Program dialog with its title saying "should not see me".
Realtek 8822CE modded Wi-Fi driver installed in Windows 7 is working, it has completed a speed test with a results of 701 Mbps download and 441 Mbps upload.
Two screenshots combined into one image. Top screenshot shows the modded driver working with Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 card in Windows 7, with a internet speed test showing 740 mbps download and 393.7 mbps upload. Bottom screenshot shows the modded driver also works with Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE200 card in Windows 7, with a internet speed test showing 850 mbps download and 104 mbps upload! There's a small disclaimer about the modded driver not working for all Intel BE200 Wi-Fi 7 cards.
Desktop screenshot of Windows 11 Build 21996, the infamous Windows 11 Build that leaked on June 15th, 2021. Showing the redesigned start menu ported from Windows 10X, the new WinUI taskbar, and the Settings app and File Explorer didn't get the updated redesign yet.
Desktop screenshot of Firefox showing a prompt about Upgrading to Windows 11 and offering to do data sync or backup to OneDrive. There's an about windows dialog shown to prove it's on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021.
Downdetector displaying 404 error code page not found.
Desktop screenshot of VMware 1.0 running two virtual machines, Windows 98 and Windows 2000. There's an about dialog showing the info, version 1.0.2, build 452. The host uses a Intel Celeron Tualatin processor clocked at 1400 MHz, downclocked to 935 MHz.
Repeatedly clicking on Launchpad app in macOS 27 Developer Beta 1, it never opens.
Desktop screenshot of macOS 27 Developer Beta 1 with Liquid Glass disabled.
Drake yes no meme style. Tim Cook does a reject gesture to Supporting Apple Watch Series 6, 7, 8, and Ultra 1, Supporting iPad Mini 5th gen, Supporting iPad 8th gen, Supporting Apple TV HD, Supporting Apple TV 4K (1st gen), and Supporting Intel Macs. But Tim Cook gestures happily to supporting the original HomePad that uses the same chip from an iPhone 6 (Apple A8)
iTunes version 10.7 running in macOS Golden Gate version 27.0 Developer Beta 1, on MacBook Air with Apple M5 chip. There's a notification popup at the top right corner saying Support Ending for Intel-based apps, This version of "iTunes" includes a component that will not work with a future release of macOS. Learn how to update to an Apple silicon version.
Screenshot of macOS 27 Finder showing the contents of the Utilities folder, the Boot Camp Assistant app is missing in macOS 27.
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macOS 27 is compatible with these devices. Explore Mac MacBook Neo (2026) MacBook Air with Apple silicon (2020 and later) MacBook Pro with Apple silicon (2020 and later) iMac with Apple silicon (2021 and later) Mac mini with Apple silicon (2020 and later) Mac Studio (2022 and later) Mac Pro with Apple silicon (2023)
Tweet says I wonder what Apple will call macOS 27 at WWDC26 and the it says Soon for 2026 in the image of the tweet.
Desktop screenshot of Windows 8.1 with Explorer7 installed, showing the actual taskbar and start menu ported from Windows 7 working in Windows 8.1
Desktop screenshot of VMware version 1.0 in Windows NT 4.0 host, running a virtual machine showing the BIOS error screen related to Diskette drive A error.
Desktop screenshot of Windows 8.1 showing the message from Aero Glass to copy the machine code into clipboard.
X (Formerly Twitter) Sign up page says Get the app to finish signing up.
Desktop screenshot of Windows 11 Build 29599 showing the Windows Tools folder having the light theme visuals despite dark theme being used.
Screenshot of Windows 10 LTSC 2021 installed on Surface Laptop SE, the drivers extracted from the Windows 11 install works without issues.
Alexa for shopping for Price history gives response "Over the past 30 days, the price of I can't help with this type of request."
Photo of Windows 11 SE installed on a budget laptop with Celeron N4120 processor and 8 GB of RAM.