[nickcoury]

I had an Acer Aspire 751 with Atom Z520 and the GMA500 GPU you mentioned. It always had terrible driver support in Windows 7. When I updated to the Windows 10 insider preview before it was released, it was unusable. Huge graphics glitches all over the place, text would disappear entirely in some programs, random scrambled blocks of the screen that changed as you navigated. By the time Windows 10 was officially released it had been improved, but still wasn't great. Not surprising that this piece of hardware isn't a good candidate for support in the future.

[pantalaimon]

Have you ever tried running Linux on it?

I wonder how the gma500 driver fares these days.

[morganvachon]

My experience with it under Linux was limited to the vesa driver only, as the GMA500 driver was incomplete and buggy. As such, it wasn't a great platform for media consumption, but if all you needed was a terminal it was fine.

[qplex]

The reverse-engineered open source gma500 driver included in Linux works very well for basic stuff but lacks features such as H.264 decoding and 3D acceleration.

The old Intel drivers can be patched to run on newer kernels, you also need to run an old version of X.org.