It seems Microsoft needs to make a brand new begin with Windows 11 and go away a lot of their legacy base behind. The OS has some particular necessities round safety, and seems to help solely trendy processors.
PCWorld requested Microsoft which of their own-brand Surface units will probably be getting the improve, and from the 25 launched solely round half are supported.
These are:
Surface Book 3 (May 2020)Surface Book 2: solely the fashions with Eighth-gen Intel CPUs (Core i5-8350U or Core i7-8650U, not the Core i5-7300U) (Nov. 2017)Surface Go 2 (May 2020)Surface Laptop 4 13.5” (Apr. 2021)Surface Laptop 4 15” (Apr. 2021)Surface Laptop 3 13.5” (Oct. 2019)Surface Laptop 3 15” (Oct. 2019)Surface Laptop 2 (Oct. 2018)Surface Laptop Go (Oct. 2020)Surface Pro 7+ (Feb. 2021)Surface Pro 7 (Oct. 2019)Surface Pro 6 (Oct. 2018)Surface Pro X (Nov. 2019)
As might be seen from the listing, extraordinarily costly units such because the Surface Studio will not be supported, and in case your gadget is older than Three years you’re mainly out of luck.
If you’re determined to run the brand new OS in your outdated gadget, one easy work-around will probably be to enrol within the Windows Insider program, the place the OS will magically acquire the power to bypass all these points.
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