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This is so incredibly lame of Windows. So much e-waste created so that secretaries can use excel and look at their Facebook on Windows 11.
by Mistletoe 4y ago
This is so incredibly lame of Windows. So much e-waste created so that secretaries can use excel and look at their Facebook on Windows 11.
- PaulHoule 4y agoIt's not an unreasonable decision for an OS vendor to occasionally say that a certain level of processor is necessary for future versions of the OS. Apple does it with MacOS. I have a 2013 Mac Mini that is going strong except that it doesn't run the latest version of MacOS. The only real problem I had with it is that Safari for a long time didn't support WebP on that version of MacOS which kept me using JPG images for a while. The trouble is that Intel's rollout of the future has been shambolic at best. Potentially revolutionary extensions such as TSX and SGX failed. It is still too early to require AVX-512 which could speed up and reduce power consumption of your web browser since many of Intel's "latest and greatest" client CPUs don't support it. (Don't buy the false claim that AVX-512 is a power pig: sure it will consume a lot of power running at full clock because it is doing a lot of work... AVX-512 helps "atom class" processors quite a bit because it avoids instruction decoding which Intel is bad at.) It's not clear that Microsoft's new line in the sand is going to buy them very much extra functionality for Windows.
- skelpmargyar 4y agoThe problem is they haven't added anything significantly new to Windows 11. I don't see any features that requires new processor features.