alessandroAI PCs aren't driving sales — The need to upgrade from Windows 10 will drive 2025 laptop sales
Lucy :3Every person I know either already has a Windows 11 ready device, or doesn’t know what an OS is. In the later case, I doubt they would trust themselves to buy a new laptop, rightfully tho. Luckily we have a bunch of old laptops from work, Win 11 compatible. Nobody will buy a new Laptop in my village!
DerpgonAnd for those tech-savvy, or with tech-savvy family members, you can put Win11 on basically any PC. It may run like this, but all the requirements can be disabled.
It depends. Microsoft has recently enabled compilation options for their binaries that will make them incompatible with older CPUs: guru3d.com/…/windows-11-24h2-new-cpu-instruction-…
Granted, these are quite old nowadays, but they could enforce newer instructions as well, like AVX-512.
Windows 11 24H2: New CPU Instruction Requirements Impact Compatibility on Older Hardware
The upcoming versions of Windows 11 may not support older hardware, as indicated by the latest preview build (26052) that introduces several new features including an AI-powered Super Resolution setting.
Wouldn’t it be possible to emulate these new instructions? It would definitely hinder the performance, tho.
From my understanding, what you’re suggesting requires emulation, so you’d probably need another operating system underneath; there are translation layers for other architectures, like Apple has with Rosetta and what WINE did for Arm, but it sounds very challenging to implement something like this for executables of the actual operating system which can operate at a very low level. So I guess this is in the theoretical realm. Maybe someone is mad enough to do this, but I wouldn’t expect it.