Windows 11 will only work on newer processors
 

Older than five years you can forget it

Microsoft has since updated its Windows 11 documentation to provide a complete list of supported processors and the list stops after anything that is older than five years.

The list includes only Intel 8th Generation Core processors or newer, and AMD Ryzen Zen+ processors or newer, effectively limiting Windows 11 to PC to anything that is four to five years old.

Amusingly absent from the list is the Intel Core i7-7820HQ, the processor used in Microsoft's current flagship $3500+ Surface Studio 2. Users are angry that their very Surface PC is failing the Windows 11 upgrade check.

Windows 11 will only support 8th Gen and newer Intel Core processors, alongside [Intel's 2016-era] Apollo Lake and newer Pentium and Celeron processors. That immediately rules out millions of existing Windows 10 devices from upgrading to Windows 11. Windows 11 will also only support AMD Ryzen 2000 and newer processors, and 2nd Gen or newer AMD EPYC chips. You can find the full list of supported processors on Microsoft's site.

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