[Framers] Windows 11 compatibility?

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

I guess it does depend on the configuration then. We have not run the utility - just checked the specs of the systems we have.

These are Lenovo laptops,  i5 and i7 dual and quad-core, and all have the TPM chips, at least 8GB of ram (most are 16GB and some are 32GB), etc.

My primary system is now an older Mac (a 2012 fast i7 quad-core laptop with 16GB) on which I run Windows 10 in Parallels (that is where I minimally use FM 12 too), although I also have a Lenovo X1 Carbon that I am slowly migrating off of.

I have a recent 2020 Mac i9 laptop too, and that is very capable of running Windows 11 in Parallels! I may do that as a test first ... for the heck of it, although I don't need Windows on that system till I punt the 2012 Mac.

My desk is cluttered with three laptops at the moment ... eek.

Z

Robert Lauriston wrote:
My almost-five-year-old Dell Optiplex 7010 is per Microsoft's utility not compatible. Not that there's any reason for me to upgrade.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 11:16 AM Syed Zaeem Hosain <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
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> Hmmm ... apparently because Microsoft wants to "add better security". Thus the need for the TPM (available in Intel cpu's from the past ten+ years).
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> The other requirements of speed, ram, disk space, etc., don't see _that_ steep to me.  Our IT guy says that everything we have (nearly 300 Windows systems - some are 8+ years old) meets the new requirements _if_ we chose to upgrade them to Windows 11.