
: “Behind the scenes, Microsoft will allow enthusiasts who wish to upgrade non-compliant older PCs to Windows 11 to do so. The Verge: “But for those happy to install Windows manually, the actual minimum Windows 11 specs mean that CPU generations don’t matter, as long as you have a 64-bit 1GHz processor with two or more cores, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage.”. Again, the linked story above has full details. The murkiest detail appears to be whether TPM hardware will be required to run Windows 11 on an unsupported PC. Check out that story for full hardware compatibility details.īut what requirements? Here’s what each publication had to say.
Update: After publication, Microsoft PR responded to PCWorld with details about what is needed to run Windows 11, and a big gotcha- unsupported PCs won’t receive updates via Windows Update.