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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) by looorg on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:23PM (1 child)
A mockery of requirements. Well perhaps not. I'm fairly sure, without even trying or watching the youtube clip, that it's not exactly going to be fun or pleasant (not counting it's Windows) running W11 on a P4. So all their requirements are not about technical aspects in that regard but also to enhance the user experience etc. It has always been a thing, or well used to be with previous versions to strip down so much and many things that it could be fit on smaller storage spaces or run with a lot less requirements. Then MS caught on and starting to release their own slimmed down versions etc.
A lot of their requirements are apparently tho things they like to have or so and not things that are actually technically required. That said this P4 is clearly some fringe case at best, silly of them not to block it, and finding one to run this isn't going to be easy and as I previously stated I doubt it will be a very fun and snappy experience.
So what was the boot time for this monstrosity? I hope it wasn't 11 minutes, perhaps it was talked about in the clip I didn't watch so if someone did please do share.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday October 20 2021, @11:18AM
The point is that they deliberately sabotage the software's ability to run on certain CPUs. It obviously could run on them, but they don't allow you to use that hardware to run it.
If they just refused to support it, nobody could complain. You're running the software in an unsupported configuration, no support for you. We won't patch to fix a bug you encounter, we won't change to accommodate you, it takes forever to do anything and the results are not good? Too bad. We told you that you'll need better hardware to run it properly.
But what we are dealing here is that the software deliberately checks what you want to run it on and does not allow you to run it. Not because the hardware couldn't, but because MS decided you shouldn't.