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This article doesn't explain why it will create the waste? What changed in the spec, is it enforced?
by frozenport 5y ago
This article doesn't explain why it will create the waste? What changed in the spec, is it enforced?
- vorpalhex 5y agoWin 11 won't support a bunch of recent (3 year old) perfectly good hardware because demands for TPM like features.
- romwell 5y agoSo the owners of that hardware will continue using Windows 10. Or, if they desperately need Win 11, the resale value of "good enough to do homework on" computers is still pretty good. But judging by the Win 10 rollout, the people who care enough to have the latest Windows to want it are a very small minority who have recent hardware anyway. I would bet it's a marketing choice, to ensure the the rollout is smooth and people like the experience. The specs might be a deliberate overkill to ensure that the first users have more than enough hardware (which probably was tested well enough), and are more likely to be computer enthusiasts who want latest-and-greatest.
- vorpalhex 5y agoIt has nothing to do with performance. It is almost certainly either due to malware concerns or DRM protections.
- supernovae 5y agoWindows 11 benchmarks have shown improvements over windows 10 - i'm sure we'll see more starting this next week as the insider build gets out in the wild
- midnitewarrior 5y agoI have a perfectly good PC from 2015 that has a Gen 5 Intel processor. It is 64-bit, 6-core, supports TPM 2.0, and supports the virtualization instructions, UEFI, etc. I have 64 gigs of ram in this and other upgrades, it works great, but it will die with Win 10 because the CPU isn't on Microsoft's list. When Win 10 support is done, so is my PC that I've invested a lot of money in. So yeah, it's going to become trash or a Linux box I haven't a need for.
- astrange 5y agoCan't you recycle every component except the motherboard?
- contingencies 5y agoGiven a few years of time passing, generally motherboard upgrades require changing the physical format of the CPU and RAM interfaces, which means everything's wasted.
- astrange 5y agoSure, but the NVME sticks, GPU, cooling system, PSU are all still good and some of those are pretty expensive too.
- floatboth 5y agoWhy do you think that there will be actual checks for this list. This is just a list intended for OEMs that build new machines. NO WAY there will be cpuid checks to exclude your processor specifically.
- wvenable 5y agoMicrosoft's PC health check software checks this, why wouldn't the actual OS installer? For the record, none of my PCs support Windows 11. My desktop has no TPM and too old of a CPU. My laptop has TPM 2.0 but it's CPU isn't supported.
- jorams 5y ago> This article doesn't explain why it will create the waste? I was similarly confused by the article's lack of actual information. As it stands it tells me there are arbitrary CPU specs and a bunch of common hardware meets those requirements. But then apparently the situation is terrible, people will need to buy new hardware and the majority of consumer hardware is deprecated.