With these laptops not supporting Windows 11, for the “average” everyday consumer, these are a do not buy.
Agreed…Microsoft really has climbed into bed with the chip manufacturer when you look at the “approved” processor list. I have a L450 and the processor in it is as good as others on the “approved list” as far as performance specifications yet not “Win 11 approved” but it apprears that list is based solely on chip age (nothing older than 2019.) You can install Win 11 on it, it just wont be supported for updates.
FYI, I just made a Windows 11 USB installer that works on ANY hardware, supported or not. Google “how to make a Windows 11 flash drive that works on any hardware”, It involves downloading the ISO from Microsoft and making one super simple tweak. Love it, as a tech I am keeping this flash handy for future use. Not sure I can leave a link but here goes me trying to “Windows 11: Create bootable USB for unsupported PCs with Rufus - YouTube”
That’s a QP right there, thanks. I’ve made my own bootable USB + Rufus for Win10 before. I haven’t quite yet upgraded to Win 11.
QP?
Quality Post
I figured since you had been a Wooter for so long you might remember they used to give out QP points or something. lol
Yeah it’s so dumb that this machine will lose security updates at the same time as my Core 2 Duo machines which also runs Windows 10. They’re roughly 10 years of age different.
Performance wise these should work just fine with Win 11 but surprisingly it’s not supported… it’s a disappointing trend, especially from Microsoft… they’re going the chromebook route
Except again, these aren’t half as old as expired Chromebooks, and unlike expired Chromebooks, these aren’t minimally-specced web only machines. It is annoying that expired Chromebooks don’t even get browser updates, but the expiration date is known at the start. This is more ridiculous. (Yes, I did recently buy a refurbished i5-6500 machine and was feeling good about having upgraded the tpm to 2.0 when I discovered that the incredibly limited list was for upgrades too, not just new machines…)
sure, I just built a new machine because of the requirements for a 11, I mean the MB and case were from woot, New cpu ryzen5 from Newegg, memory from Amazon and everything else aMigration… decent machine to run another 10 years… (maybe)
Don’t get me started on expired Chrombooks and woot…