chinny22 wrote on 2021-10-06, 11:09:
Best thing about Windows 11? Companies are already retiring "non complaint hardware"
hardware for Late/Overkill XP builds are about to become cheaper 😀
That makes me wonder: Does Win 11 still support booting via BIOS/MBR?
I know of a few friends that run Win 10 x64 on dated PCs from the mid/late 2000s.
But if Win XI doesn't support that anymore (unless hacked to work with Win 10 loader),
then that alone would be a nogo for old PCs, even if they met the new requirements (TPM2, certain CPU instructions).
And considering that UEFI boot became common in the early-mid 2010s,
then the new strict hardware requirements aren't that strict, anyway.
Currently, supported PC hardware that's said to be Win 11 compatible
can be 5 years "old", at best.
So we're at 2017/2016, which is close to the ~ 2011-2015 years in which the first PCs with UEFI (64-Bit UEFI, full implementation) came out.
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