Speaking of Dell, here is the current list of Dell PC's tested for Win 11. The laptop can continue with Win 10 until it dies. No big deal, its 3 years old and there are many that consider 3 years as average lifespan of a laptop (many last longer but average is 3 years). My desktop DAW system has an i7 8700K CPU and has TPM 2.0 but my Dell Inspiron 15 laptop that I sometimes use for recording has a 7th gen CPU so is out based on current Microsoft requirements. I have a graphics programmer friend that is in the same boat with a high end MAC the latest MAC OS leaves his system out. My working career was in computers (the last 23 years as a regional LAN/WAN Network and Hardware Help Desk Manager at SSA) and the one thing that was certain was hardware and software changing. I look at it as Microsoft's call on what will or won't be compatible since they will upgrade it to Win 11 "free". It would have been far more useful if they listed all the problems at one time rather than piecemeal. The annoying thing is after all that work I got the CPU incompatibility message. If anyone needs to do this I can hunt down the videos I found that helped. Different tool to find out which one is in use and which is dead! Not for the faint of heart - I was afraid I would brick my system but it worked fine after I deleted the dead recovery partitions. I had to watch a bunch of YouTube tutorials before I figured out how to do that. I had 2 redundant recovery partitions created by buggy windows installs that I had to manually delete before I was able to use the MBR2GPT.EXE tool. I spent more than half of Saturday dealing with switching to UEFI. You have to use MBR2GPT.exe to do the conversion. Even the tools that claim to do it don't (I ended up having to boot to a command prompt and rebuild the partitions from scratch before I could restore from a Macrium backup - that's not fun).Īnd if you dual boot (Linux/Windows 10, say), then good luck □ OK, it's a complete pain the backside without wiping your entire OS disk. A lot of people, like me, will have gone with a CSM (compatability non-UEFI) boot for Windows 10 for a variety of reasons, even though I have firmware TPM 2.0 and possibility to use UEFI.Ĭhanging from CSM to UEFI boot is.well, let's be charitable and call it non-trivial. The real pain (I think) will be UEFI/secure boot. With Windows 11, we are focused on increasing security, improving reliability, and ensuring compatibility. Below you will find changes we are making based on that feedback, including ensuring we have the ability for Windows Insiders to install Windows 11 on 7th generation processors to give us more data about performance and security, updating our PC Health check app to provide more clarity, and committing to more technical detail on the principles behind our decisions. The intention of today’s post is to acknowledge and clarify the confusion caused by our PC Health Check tool, share more details as to why we updated the system requirements for Windows 11 and set the path for how we will learn and adjust. With a new generation comes an opportunity to adapt software and hardware to keep pace with people’s computing needs today and in the future. Last week’s introduction of Windows 11 signaled the first step on our journey to empower people with the next generation of Windows. Today we’re releasing our first Insider build for Windows 11, and we’re looking forward to the insight that comes from you installing and using on a variety of your PCs.
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