I have no idea.. My laptop is over 7 years old, I think. Maybe older.
Windows 11
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Grant Fondo
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Ah, does it meet Win 11 cpu/RAM requirements?
Apparently not.
Device name Petes-Laptop
Processor AMD E1-6010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics 1.35 GHz
Installed RAM 6.00 GB (4.96 GB usable)
Device ID 8F1CC78B-65DB-4FA1-B3B4-A287342C
Product ID 00326-10000-00000-A2
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
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Grant Fondo
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Its roughly 2017 onwards kit that will work on Win 11. I know people have had some success on older machines but less stable so not worth it.
Win 10 was great imo anyway?
Dogtrousers
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We've still got 5 years of support in W10, so no real need to panic just yet.
Grant Fondo
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One thing I would say is Win 11 feels a bit 'snappier' opening apps etc up. No difference in gaming that I can see.
Ming the Merciless
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When I upgraded to W10 it was snappy and booted from cold to login in less than 30 seconds. Since then it seems to want to do updates every bloody time I turn it on. Boot is now somewhat less snappy. My software stack on top of Windows 10 is pretty much unchanged. I think they assume everyone now has SSD and they can chuck lots of Windows update crap at it every week. Mine is hybrid which is hard disk plus about 8Gb cache that learns which files to cache for fast boot up. But since Windows updates thousands of these files every week, the cache gets invalidated nearly every time. So boot never speeds back up.
I suspect W11 will be even worse at assuming SSD. It’ll start snappy and gradually become slow as molasses at startup.
I suspect W11 will be even worse at assuming SSD. It’ll start snappy and gradually become slow as molasses at startup.
Grant Fondo
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I haven't had Windows on a pc desktop HDD for 10 years. Why not put your OS on 20 quid SSD? It will be miles better.
Ming the Merciless
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Because a 20 quid SSD has fark all capacity
Alex321
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Agreed. You won't get anything bigger than 120GB for that, which would be enough for the OS, but not your other programs. You really want at least twice that to be all that much use.
Grant Fondo
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The main thing is to get the OS off a hard disk. They are effectively obsolete.
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SydZ
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What’s the worst that can happen? I have a backup on the Windows 10:installation I can always return to if needed. 🙂
Grant Fondo
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Crazy isn't it? You can get a 500gb m.2 for £36 ... pretty sure i spent £150 on a Samsung one a couple of years back.
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
I spent around £100 for a 120gb Kingston SSD around the 2016 mark. You can easily find the same ones now for less that £20... Still have it mind and it works perfectly fine.
