I have a 6th Gen i7 and Windows tells me it’s not eligible for 11. If I recall they require 7th or 8th or higher to be officially supported. So when woot says “most” will be supported for 11 wouldn’t only 25% of these make the cut?
Why why why?
When you can get these 2 on woot as sure things for not much more both of which have Windows 11 or can be for sure upgraded with FHD screens
HP EliteBook 840G6 Intel I5 16GB 256GB W10P - $279.99 - Free shipping for Prime members HP EliteBook 840G6 Intel I5 16GB 256GB W10P
Dell Latitude 3340 13.3" FHD ( 8GB, 256GB SSD) - $284.99 - Free shipping for Prime members Dell Latitude 3340 13.3" FHD ( 8GB, 256GB SSD)
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Why does Win 11 matter? Windows 10 is End-of-life Oct 14, 2025.
While there is a couple freak 7th gen processors, you need 8th gen or higher to start considering Win 11.
75% of these should either be trashed or have Linux or Chrome OS flex loaded on them in 21 months.
You can do better for the money.
They require 8th Gen to be easily upgraded through Windows update. You can side load it on older machines but there’s extra work that most everyone is not comfortable with and there’s no guarantee that at some point that Microsoft will keep allowing updates to it. I have it running without incident on a 7th Gen processor.
Windows 11 will only support intel processors 8th gen amd higher and the system having TPM available and enabled. So at the MOST only 25% of the computers will support windows 11. There are workarounds for unsupported systems but there are no guarentees that future updates won’t disable them. All things considered this is a crapshoot at best! I’ll take one with the highest gen available with FHD screen (preferably with a touch screen), 32GB RAM, 512 GB storage and plenty of ports.
On a 4th gen here – because I could. Just like why that machine has a modded BIOS that allows it to boot directly to a NVMe drive.
(My primary machines run W10 or Mint, though. And if for an extremely strange coincidence that all of them were down … well, that’s what a live USB is for, right? 
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I had a Surface Pro 3 with a Gen 4 running W11 Pro (somewhat slowly) from Windows Insider fast ring. Always updated fine through normal update methods. No tricks involved.
Buying a BOC is also gambling. Bottom line, buying anything unknown from Woot is gambling. The struggle is real. 
Did this last time. Got screwed. The 25% that have the 1366x768 screen is what kills this deal. These things can take more RAM and a bigger drive usually but a lousy screen is where you get stuck.
Fool me once, shame on you.
The HP has a halfway decent CPU. The Dell does not.
What’s the return policy? Can’t you just hurl it back at them if you get one with crummy specs?
That’s funny since the 12th gen i3 will outperform the 8th gen i5 by 20-80% depending on usage. it will also be WAY more efficient. The real killer with the dell is the 8GB of RAM and you would need to upgrade, but it does support it. I would buy neither, but would buy the Dell every day of the week over the HP.
No macbooks? 
usually with mystery deal stuff you can’t return it, but I don’t see that specified on this one.
Considering how I’m using a 2018 Surface Go as my main laptop, this might not be so bad for me.
Correction: Buying anything known or unknown from Woot is gambling. Always a Crap Shoot. Packaging and rough shipping can put a fork in it.
Im sorry, there are to many places where you can buy decent laptops with known specs for close to this price without having to cross your fingers about getting a good one.