The blank die space is pretty dumb given AMD are fab capacity constrained and could squeeze more chips out of a wafer if they reorganized the die to eliminate the dead space. Intel always makes their ...

Don't Throw Away Your Laptop: How to Install Windows 11 On Unsupported Hardware ...

Microsoft quietly made a change to its official Windows 11 minimum hardware requirements in order to help users understand Copilot+ PC compatibility and support better. Microsoft, sometime in March ...

Procrastinating on an OS upgrade? Here are a few ways to switch to Windows 11 for free.

Microsoft has long been pushing the use of Windows 11 instead of Windows 10. The company's time and attention are being spent on Windows 11 and not Windows 10. Recently, Microsoft expanded the list of ...

Microsoft's recent updates to its OEM support guide for Windows 11 version 24H2 have caused some confusion about the hardware requirements for Windows 11. However, Microsoft has confirmed that there ...

Windows 11 is designed to run primarily on computers equipped with Intel CPUs from the 8th generation or newer, or Ryzen 2000 series CPUs or later. The CPUs that were removed are from Intel's 8th ...

When Microsoft released Windows 11 in 2021, it also rolled out strict hardware compatibility requirements for the new operating system. If you tried to upgrade a ...

The latest Windows 11 preview build added a new entry to the list of compatibility blocks. It now includes the SSE4.2 instruction set, preventing very old CPUs from running Windows 11 version 24H2.

That was the reaction of a reader who successfully upgraded a 12-year-old PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11 after being repeatedly blocked by the compatibility checker in Microsoft's Windows 11 Setup ...