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[Auto Addict]

As millions of PC's won't be able to run Win 11, will people just use their tablets and phones instead?

[TheBoy]

Who knows what will run it. Christ, Microsoft don't yet


Though its irrelevant, as Win 10 is still supported for a few more years, and new PCs will soon come with it.  If you current machine meets the specs, no doubt MS will try to enforce it on you. If it doesn't, its likely most people will replace their PCs Lon before Win10 dies.

[dave the builder]

a TPM module sold for £235 recently on ebay 
you could buy a new MOBO and processor for that much
then re-mortgage to buy a graphics card 

no doubt Asus, Gigabyte ,MSI etc are designing a few budget MOBOs to meet the WIN 11 spec

I expect the future will bring one server type PC in people's houses to act as a central hub to run portable mobile devices and take care of smart home tech ,battery banks ,solar, etc

running windows 27 ,service pack 3   

[Viral_Jim]

Or a stadia type model where the box with all the brains lives in another part of the world and your pc just talks to it down the phone line.

I'm sure that M$ will have lots of data on how often people replace their PC's and will have timed the windows 11 rollout and windows 10 decommissioning to just nudge people to buy new machines rather than alienate a big chunk of their user base. 

[TheBoy]

And the only "machine" I have upgraded to to Win11 Pro so far runs "OK" with 2 cpus and 4Gb, and no security hardware like TPM.  It does use over 2Gb when idle, with no additional apps installed, which is high compared to W10 x64, but it was an upgrade rather than clean install, and its preview code, so will have all the symbols and debt shite in.


"machine" = a VM

[dave the builder]

I tried Win 11 (the leaked version) last weekend on a AMD FX quad core, 16GB ram with old spinny hard drive . worked well ,updated etc ,
also tried it on a HP all in one ,4 GB ram, new Sata HDD, But it has a Intel Atom D410, which is slower than the village idiot ,works fine with win 7 but Win 11  is choppy ,so you definitely need dual core and probably 8GB of ram for a usable experience.

[TheBoy]

Anything post Vista really needs 2 CPU cores (either 2 CPUs, or a dual core CPU).

Given its only a minor Win10 update, you can already get a feel for how well a W10 PC will run W11....   ....not withstanding MS artificial requirements on hardware.

W11 previews will be more bloaty due to the debug code.