After Microsoft released Windows 11, many people are already eager to try and prepare for the upgrade. The official also announced a detection software that can check in advance whether it can meet the installation requirements of Win11.
Compared with Win10, the main reason is that the storage is doubled to 4+64GB, and 32-bit CPU is no longer supported. It does not seem to be high, but this minimum hardware requirement does not mean much, because the real threshold of Win11 is much higher, even Many mainstream users can be eliminated.
Microsoft’s developer account confirmed today that the installation of Win11 system requires 8th generation Core and above processors, that is, after Coffee Lake, the previous 7th generation Core Kaby Lake and earlier CPUs are not supported. Compared with the requirements of the AMD platform, the threshold is also very high. The first-generation Ryzen 1000 series is not within the scope of support. Ryzen 2000, Ryzen 3000 and later CPUs are no problem.
In contrast, the extremely high threshold of the Intel platform has a greater impact. The seventh-generation Core is the Core i-7000 series. Processors like i7-7700K are still the main force of many people. Now they are ruthlessly despised by Win11. Win11 does not give a chance. All in all, the changes in the hardware requirements of the Win11 system make people feel a little uncomfortable. In the past two days, many people have been tortured by the official small software due to the BIOS safe boot and TPM2.0 issues. The current CPU requirements have even more fans. Crying without tears, if Microsoft does not change or has no chance to bypass, Intel is seriously injured this time.
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