![]() ![]() I bought one computer 2 years ago and it’s not only blocked on it’s processor but it has no TPM and no TPM slot, since it uses a custom motherboard so it can’t be updated ever. After the pandemic I am in no position to afford a replacement much sooner than that. ![]() No one with a well functioning PC would be tempted to replace it for "security" unless they were flush with cash.Performance wise my computers could easily last another 6 years because I buy high performance PCs to last me a decade or longer. There’s no added security until I buy a new PC which isn’t something decided by Windows buying a PC is decided by personal finances and how well existing PCs can run the apps we choose to use. If having a generational cutoff is only about protecting from exploits and I am going to be stuck on Windows 10, then I will still have the same exploits open to me. ![]() I agree, any processor with enough GHz should be able to run Windows 11. But having spent two decades on Apple side, this is totally normal and very few people complain and fork out the cash… It’s sad. Only Apple is brazen enough to just brush them off.I too have a 5th Gen i5 Dell, with 16GB RAM, SSD, which runs W10 like a dream. I think MSFT learned a lesson from Apple’s PR stunts. I have had numerous tricked out Mac minis, which ended up being a paper weight. I had been a die-hard Apple user for almost 20 years and they were famous about artificially killing off perfectly working machines with every iteration of OS X. Now, 7th gen may be perfectly capable of running W11 now, but will it keep up with updates (which they’ve undoubtedly already put on the long-term roadmap) 4-5 years from now? It would be a guaranteed marketing fiasco, if latest updates of W11 (or whatever they call it) in 2025 started taking these machines out of commission. Leaving all jokes and cynicism aside, this is what I really think is happening and MSFT should be just humbly honest about this and come out clean:W11 is big enough update to last another 5 years and they probably want to ensure that machines who install it in 2021 can still reliably and comfortably run it in 2025 or 26. They want YOU to spend $$$ on a new PC, so THEIR shareholders can be happy about revenue numbers. Some real progress from Windows, with an actual mea culpa and a quick turnaround. It will make a return sometime this fall ahead of the October release date. Microsoft’s PC Health Check app “was intended to help people check if their current Windows 10 PC could upgrade to Windows 11,” but the performance of this tool is so horrifically bad that Microsoft is pulling the download to address the feedback it has received. ![]() If they pass muster, users with those processors will be able to upgrade in October (or whenever Microsoft turns on the upgrades, which could be early 2022, actually). And to be compatible with the apps you already use, it needs the same minimum requirements as Office and Teams.įinally coming clean on the 8th-generation Intel Core (and AMD Zen 2 and Qualcomm 7/8) requirements, Microsoft now says that it will test whether Windows 11 can work well enough on 7th-generation Intel Core and AMD Zen 1 processors during the short Insider testing period this summer. It will push the boundaries on reliability. Defending the stringent new Windows 11 system requirements, Microsoft says that it only wants to “adapt software and hardware to keep pace with people’s expectations needs and harness the true value and power of the PC to deliver the best experiences, now and in the future.” Windows 11 “raises the bar” on security, hence the TPM 2.0 chipset requirement. ![]()
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