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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @04:48AM (2 children)
Fuck You.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @06:11AM (1 child)
Enough Microsofting Micro$erf propaganda on SN! Just, stop. No one here uses Windows, well, except Runaway on his virtual machines, or MartyB on his back-up machine, or khallow on his pro-capitalist richie supporting Mac Book Prong. Can we not have real news about real tech progress, and nothing more about an old and decrepit operating system from the '80's? I, for one, would appreciate more about the ARM architecture, and how Microsoft cannot deal with it.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 19 2021, @04:26PM
I use Windows at work, where I am not responsible for maintaining it or trying to keep it running.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.