Please stop the madness.

[pastorb]

My kids school recently was selling inexpensively some Dell Optiplex 7440 AIO with an intel core i7 vpro chip. After watching several videos from LTT I knew what to look for so I opened the computer up and saw that I could add an NVME drive and could expand the ram up to 32 gb from 8gb. I was able to take a machine that could barely open start menu or do anything to a very capable machine meeting that met what I thought were all the required specs for windows 11 to finding out it would not upgrade to windows 11 at all next October. This is crazy. A machine that was headed for e waste we were able to save and my 11 year old has a very capable machine that should get him through the next 3 to 4 years. Please could you do a video on how to upgrade to windows 11 or bring attention to the impending e waste because of this arbitrary upgrade nonsense. 

 

[coderrquitsreality]

sure but it wont run well

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement

 

go windows 10 or switch to linux

[thrasher_565]

ya the most cost in business  pcs are the tec working on them. and they make deals to upgrade them so often. no w11 is probly why there dumping em...

Edited January 1, 2025 by thrasher_565

[leclod]

Install W10 instead

[leadeater]

2 hours ago, pastorb said:

Please could you do a video on how to upgrade to windows 11 or bring attention to the impending e waste because of this arbitrary upgrade nonsense.

I'm pretty sure there actually is, or one close enough

[Needfuldoer]

That model is eight years old; the school was probably selling them because they were replaced.

 

That said, it's a Kaby Lake (7th gen) system, so it's just barely too old for official Windows 11 support. A tool called Rufus can make a Windows 11 installer that will ignore the 8th gen requirement and install anyway. (In fact, Windows 11 will run on much older processors than that.)

 

Windows 11 will probably run just fine on that computer, especially with the RAM and storage upgrades you did, just bear in mind that it's unofficially supported and that could potentially change with major updates down the road.

  

2 hours ago, pastorb said:

Please could you do a video on how to upgrade to windows 11 or bring attention to the impending e waste because of this arbitrary upgrade nonsense. 

 

12 minutes ago, leadeater said:

I'm pretty sure there actually is, or one close enough

 

There is! It's a couple years old, but the principles haven't changed all that much. If anything, it's even easier now.

 

 

[ki8aras]

2 hours ago, pastorb said:

. Please could you do a video on how to upgrade to windows 11 or bring attention to the impending e waste because of this arbitrary upgrade nonsense. 

 

im pretty sure microsoft recently dropped the tpm 2.0 requirement on windows 11, allowing install on legacy systems

https://www.techpowerup.com/329691/microsoft-loosens-windows-11-install-requirements-tpm-2-0-not-needed-anymore

[LogicalDrm]

Organization's are often on upgrade cycle and even more commonly have bought service from provider. So for them it would be more work to check machines one by one for upgrades vs just letting external provider sell them new ones. Imo it's good that they are trying to sell or donate old ones out. They could just send the bunch to recycling/dump.