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Windows 11 hardware requirements made a mockery of by an Intel Pentium 4 processor
As the screenshots below show, Microsoft considers the Intel Pentium 4 661 a supported processor. Intel released the Pentium 4 661 in early 2006, with a solitary core to its name. Apparently, Microsoft forgot to add any Intel Family 15 (Netburst) SKUs in its unsupported processors list for Windows 11.
Hence, the PC Health Check tool sees that the Pentium 4 661 has a 3.6 GHz boost clock, which satisfies one of Windows 11's requirements. Curiously, the tool states that the Pentium 4 661 has two or more cores, even though it lists it as having one.
@Carlos_SM1995 has even got Windows 11 (Build 22000.258) running on a Pentium 4 661. Supposedly, Windows Update still works too, highlighting the ridiculousness of Microsoft's overtures regarding Windows 11 compatibility.
Windows 11 final (Build 22000.258) running on Intel Pentium 4 (11m4s video)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @04:12AM (3 children)
Windows 11 runs on space heaters, eh?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Tuesday October 19 2021, @09:11AM
Provided it has a TPM chip.
Otherwise just run it on a regular computer to turn it into a space heater.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 19 2021, @04:25PM (1 child)
I assume you mean it runs on the Digital Space Heaters. You know the ones where it clearly says it is a DIGITAL space heater on the front of the box. So much better than those old analog space heaters.
Just search Amazon for "Digital Heater"
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @06:08PM
Planck said that energy was quantized, so they are all digital.