I don’t know. Most of the increase above appears to be win 10 users. Win 10 lost 1.09% and the percentage gain was close to evenly split between linux and win11 with a little going to MacOS.

I could see a bunch of people paying $15 to keep win 10 going , but not that much.

Awesome. Will be interesting to see the November December numbers with unpaid Win10 support ending.

Yep, usually. May require a bit of work to open and take out. The heatsink is usually screwed to a plate not much different to a desktop gpu with a block on one side and a metal clip on the other. Gpu can need repasting after 7+ years as well

It could, but I am uncertain. My 3 top guesses are temperature, voltage then failing hardware. Temp is usually the cheapest to fix, but most time consuming. Batteries tend to be more expensive and a bit less involved depending on the laptop. Dell has had disassembly manuals on their website in the past. Haven’t looked recently though.

Hardware failing is just, you are screwed-ish. If you have software that works to underclock it, that is at least a workaround.

Edit: CPU is soldered to board just to be clear. Heatsink can be removed, repasted.

You say it is clean, but have you re-pasted the cpu? How are the thermals?

Also, It is on battery or wall power? Is it using the original battery? Thought there is the voltage isn’t stable.