If you really want to upgrade, just try it out. Don't worry. MS' CPU requirements are somewhat arbitrary (presumably they want them to include spectre/meltdown

If you really want to upgrade, just try it out. Don't worry. MS' CPU requirements are somewhat arbitrary (presumably they want them to include spectre/meltdown mitigations) but they are not strictly enforcing the rules. This is probably just to protect them from lawsuits. So far nobody reported, they were not receiving any more updates bc of their CPU. I also recently watched a nice explanation of how to install/upgrade Windows 11 on a non-supported machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL_maCWM5bk&pp=ygUTZXhwbGFpbmluZ2NvbXB1dGVycw%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL_maCWM5bk&pp=ygUTZXhwbGFpb...