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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @10:56AM (5 children)
Is it even legal? Sure the code might be slow, but can a software vendor arbitrarily lock the product to specific hardware legally?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Opportunist on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:05PM
We could ask Apple.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by RedGreen on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:20PM
"Is it even legal? Sure the code might be slow, but can a software vendor arbitrarily lock the product to specific hardware legally?"
There is no law against it unless done to diminish competition violating anti-trust laws. But Apple has done the same forever when they upgrade their OS with artificial limitations on the hardware supported by the next version of the OS cutting off the old hardware that is still usable with the new OS. There is a whole cottage industry of sorts around finding the work a rounds to allow the continued use of the old hardware with the new OS. Apple took a little turn from their garbage hardware locks they used to do years back like special firmware on the hard drives and video cards to limit you to their expensive options. They were open for a tiny while now it is back to non-upgrade able everything with it all glued down or soldered to the logic boards. Ensuring even more expensive and environmentally damaging replacements when only a normal tiny part would need to be replaced in any other machine it is the whole board with them. They like to talk a good game but in practice their lies are many on those subjects, like their we use none of the slave labour in China hilarity they sell on a regular basis to their sheeple. Enough of that rant of the day this is about MS garbage which is piled even higher than Apples or at least equal heights. All them companies lie about this and the bribes paid to the politicians keep them raking in the profits without oversight, violating the people's everything they can to wring every last cent of it out us. Fucking parasites every good damn one of them there are no good corporations at all as far as I am concerned. They are the reason the planet is in the mess we are right now along with their collaborators the bought and paid for politicians.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:22PM
It would be completely different if they were physically testing the software the way that they used to on real hardware. If they just listed the models that they had in a QA lab and blacklisted the rest of it, that would be somewhat understandable. But, these days, they basically don't do any testing of fixes and if something does happen, there's a very good chance that they don't have any of the necessary information to figure out what happened with any reliability.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:30PM
Hey, someone else who does not own a stupid smart phone!
Unfortunately the rule in this modern world is "If it isn't expressly illegal, companies will do it". It doesn't matter if something is unethical, abusive, or technically wrong, if there is no law expressly against it and it can make a company money somehow, they will do it.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 19 2021, @04:30PM
It is in your very most goodest interest if Microsoft locks Windows 11 to machines having the instructions that their compiler will generate.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.