Windows 11 upgrade, a rant!

[CXRAndy]

I was intrigued about my NUC PC which I've retired from its main duty of running Zwift.

I did the updates and it informed me my CPU and TPM weren't compatible. I checked the bios and found the toggle setting for TPM. So I've just got the small hurdle of either editing the registry to ignore unsupported CPU or wait for Microsoft to add my i5 1.8ghz processor to the support list.

I'll leave it for the moment as it's running fine with Rouvy on another turbo set up

 

[Drago]

^^^ I'd use a ballpeen hammer for that.

 

[albion]

I think my old laptops TPM toggle was for TPM 1.5
W11 needs 2.0.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Not W11 but my PC decided to fart itself into a 45 minute update last night, no idea what it was for but after 3 restarts it finally started working again. I think I'll be switching away from Windows sooner rather than later now.

 

[Dadam]

I'm all for keeping old equipment going, but the price selling a old laptop will be minimal. Wouldn't it be worthwhile as a backup of some sort?

It's a fair point, it's a very nice machine and the screen, albeit "only" FHD resolution is lovely and vibrant. It's also one of the first laptops with an ultra thin bezel around the screen. It has a 13.3" screen but is almost exactly the same size externally as the netbook it replaced, which only had an 11.6" screen. Its battery still seems good too.

On the other hand with a new gaming laptop, a Macbook Pro 16", a Macbook Air 13" and a Dell XPS-15 plus various iPads in the household we're not really wanting for computing devices! Also, I'm really bad at getting rid of stuff, so the temptation to keep something else "just in case" is to be resisted. Ebay shows the same model going for between 150 and 200. Some at 100 even lacking battery and/or SSD! So it's not to be sneezed at.

Interestingly many of those listings from the same commercial refurb outfit are listed with 11 Pro installed.

 

[Drago]

Not W11 but my PC decided to fart itself into a 45 minute update last night, no idea what it was for but after 3 restarts it finally started working again. I think I'll be switching away from Windows sooner rather than later now.

Mine did the updates a few days ago. It took 3 or 4 minutes on mine.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Mine did the updates a few days ago. It took 3 or 4 minutes on mine.

Normally does on mine but it just had an absolute moment and fully refused to update 100%, just froze. I ended up hard resetting it twice to try and get it to react.

 

[Mike_P]

On the subject of needing an appropriately sized hard drive /SSD the latest.version of W11 is leaving over 8GB of unnecessary files on the drive that are currently undeletable.

 

[markemark]

Mine did the updates a few days ago. It took 3 or 4 minutes on mine.

Often depends on internet speed for downloading updates not just the device.