Surprisingly, it looks like Microsoft will not put an upgrade block on installations done on a device using Intel’s Pentium 4 661, which was released in 2006 and obviously doesn’t meet all Windows 11 requirements.
As you can see in the above screenshot, Intel Pentium 4 661, which has only one core and 3.6Ghz of clock speed, is listed as a supported processor in the PC Health Check. That’s possibly because Microsoft forgot to update the strings needed to reflect “unsupported status” in the PC Health Check Tool for this particular Intel family.
Disregarding artificial barriers, Windows will run on pretty much any x86 processor – and Windows 11 is no different. You really don’t actually want to, but it does form the base of a cottage community of people trying to get modern Windows releases to run on the oldest possible hardware, which is always a fun exercise.
When someone tells you who they are believe them. By taking a swipe Microsoft showed who they are. Unless I see deep and meaningful proof of Microsoft’s contrition Windows 10 five year update support is a countdown to Windows coming off my systems for good. It’s a hard divorce.
I’ve seen it all before. Yes I know some edgelords and wannabes get a thrill off hacking Windows 10 to work but this is a losing proposition, Ditto Microsoft being the gatekeeper for secure boot and all the other nasty tricks which make running multiple OS a nightmare. Microsoft even tried to smash the open standards OpenGL and Vulkan.
The US are not reliable allies. Having destroyed the UK and mainland European IT and comms idustries then getting Europe to subsidise their shift from the Atlantic to Pacific you’d think people would have wised up.
Don’t buy American. Don’t buy Chinese either for their human rights abuses. Nor post-Brexit UK for the same reasons.
Then whom buying from ? You’ll always find a valid reason not to buy anything from anyone.
I buy all my computer systems from the russians. I mean, they’re harmless, right?
What has post-Brexit UK got to do with either destroying European IT industries or with China-scale human right abuses? I mean specifically. Every country predates on its neighbors’ industries to one degree or another. Every country has some human rights abuses, because countries are big messy places. How did Brexit change any of that for the UK? If the UK is verboten, just who isn’t? Bhutan?
No-one’s perfect, but that’s setting a very high and vague bar.
(Its not like you can buy PCs really made in the UK anyway, but still.)
@M.Onty
You need to read up on the post-WWII defence and trade arrangements and latest human rights reports. The US pretty much guaranteed Western security in exchange for Europe opening up its markets. Before the EEC now EU came along Europe was pretty fragmented and most countries had insular markets. The sheer size and monopolistic and outsourcing behaviour (along with long term subsidies in the Far East) pretty much crushed Europe. The EU is now rebuilding via the Horizons programme.
The last supercomputer manufacturer in the UK was Meiko. The last PC manufacturer which designed and built their own boards was Apricot. ICL was the last mainframe and minicomputer manufacturer and went bust years ago.
Some human rights metrics now place the UK on par with Russia, Poland, and Hungary. There’s other goverance and economic and social metrics too which put the UK behind the rest of Europe.
lol. What`s wrong with human rights in Poland and Hungary?
I am pretty well informed on post-WWII trade and defence agreements and yes, I understood the point you were making about the US vs Europe.
Not so up to speed on the latest human rights reports so I am genuinely interested to see what reports rank the UK behind the rest of Europe and/or on par with Russia. Not being confrontational, I really would like to see them.
A cursory glance online shows the UK is still highly regarded in ‘freedom indices’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices#List_by_country), and indeed higher than France, Spain, Italy, on par with Germany, and worse than Netherlands and Sweden. I appreciate that ‘freedom’ and ‘human rights’ are not exactly the same, so your information would be interesting.
At this point, I am starting to think you are an AI bot or a very nasty troll. Stop trying to go off-topic on every article.
No some things just agitate me. Widows is simply one irritation. So much so I spent the past hour wathing a few videos and am now wondering to install Linux on one laptop as a sole OS or dual boot. As for anything else if you don’t pay attention at the time or comprehend or inform yourself that’s your problem on your time. There’s a handful of snotty edgelords with an issue on here who like to take stabs and I’m ignoring you.
See, i used to be like you, hating Windows and looking for any reasonable alternative. I went though Linux, BSD, Haiku (which i ran as a daily driver for about 2 years) before settling on MacOS X. I still think there’s a lot wrong with Windows, and probably won’t daily-drive it when i get a new laptop, but i sure-as-shit ain’t buying a Macbook again either, leaving my options as Linux/BSD or a hackintosh (with maybe a Haiku dual-boot).
The thing is, no OS is “perfect”. They all have good and bad sides, I still keep a Windows box around for gaming, because you kind of have to as a PC gamer. I use Linux a biut as well when tinkering with Raspberry Pi’s, and as i said before, daily-drive MacOS on a MBA. They all have their flaws, and none of them are perfect. You just have acknowledge these flaws and pitfalls, and just use the right tool for the right job. Sometimes that will be Windows, other times it might be BSD, other times it might be AmigaOS 3.1. There’s no point completely writing off a whole family of OSes just because your political ideals don’t match theirs, the only person it hurts is you and your own broadness of knowledge
Probably requires at least SSE2
One minor correction: It won’t run on any x86 processor, it needs a x86-64 processor since there is no 32-bit version.
Well that took them long enough. MacOS X has been 64-bit-only for about a decade. Even most major Linux distributions have been solidly 64bit for about as long. There is no real reason that most end users should even need 32-bit Windows any more. It was a niche feature to allow companies with (very) legacy software to still have an up-to-date Windows to run it on. Frankly, nowadays those niche use-cases can be supported through VM’s when absolutely necessary, but even then, it would be a wise move to upgrade those legacy systems to something that isn’t old enough to buy a drink in a bar.