TPM

[PMW1]

Hi, I have an HP Spectre 13-4009-na which I love as much now as when I bought it, its just as fast and efficient so have no reason to ditch it.

I have been informed that this machine is not suitable for upgrade to windows 11 due to TPM (1.2) and i5 processor.

Can the community tell me if these can be upgraded to facilitate windows 11.

Thanks in advance

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

You can upgrade your notebook from W10 to W11 with a workaround.

If you are interested in installing W11 on your PC as is, you can read this discussion for how I upgraded several HP and Dell notebook and desktop PC's that did not meet the W11 hardware requirements to W11 22H2/22H3.

You have to use the version of the Rufus utility that I zipped up and attached in the discussion (v3.18).

Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912

If the in-place upgrade fails, you should be able to clean install W11 using the bootable W11 installation flash drive you made with Rufus.

[PMW1]

Hi Paul, thanks I will have a look at that discussion in the next day or so. I would be happy to stay with W10 really if it werent' for support being withdrawn next year.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I've upgraded at least a dozen of my PC's to W11, and they all work fine on it, for pretty much the same reason as you mentioned...Microsoft ending support for W10 in less than a year and a half.

Some much older than yours including an ancient HP 6910p business class notebook built in 2008.

My theory is that Microsoft didn't want to provide support to millions of old PC's running W10 and now could get a free upgrade to W11 extending that support for many more years.

By drawing the line at Intel 8th generation core processors (for Intel PCs), they probably effectively reduced the PC support requests in the millions.  There is a similar requirement for AMD platforms.  The cut is pretty much at the Ryzen 3xxx processors.

You won't notice much difference in your PC's performance from W10>W11 except it may boot up a tiny bit faster.

I think Microsoft learned that hard way when they offered the free upgrade to W10 to any PC running W7, which could have included many old PC's going back to 2003/2004.

Could you imagine the flood of help requests coming in if folks could get the free upgrade on an old PC like that to W11?