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Win 11 won't support a bunch of recent (3 year old) perfectly good hardware because demands for TPM like features.
by vorpalhex 5y ago
Win 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