Win 11 Upgrade

[topdogpf]

Has anyone successful upgrade an HP Elitebook 840 G3 to win 11?

[banhien]

@topdogpf 

The HP Elitebook 840 G3 machines use Intel G6 processors which do not meet Windows 11 requirements. You need Intel G8 up to be able to install/upgrade Windows 11 normal way. If you wish, you can

            Installing Windows 11 on devices that don't meet minimum system requirements

Regards.

[WAWood]

@topdogpf 

I understand your issue -- as I have the same situation with an old laptop that meets almost none of the Win11 hardware requirements, and I really wanted to try out Win11 on it but the installer refused.

And while there are workarounds to this, forcing Win11 onto "incompatible" hardware is an "experiment" at best -- not a long-term solution.

Let me explain ...

MS has relented, for now, in enforcing Win11 hardware requirements -- but they already have the code to check hardware because they provide that as a downloadable utility.  It would take little effort to package that as a Security Update, push it to the PCs, and after a reboot, we get messages that our PCs are disabled and we have to reinstall Win10 from scratch to get a working PC back. MS has already done this with "insiders" who were running really old hardware on Windows 11. Their PCs were disabled by a Windows Update.

I'm OK because I have a full image backup of the laptop running Windows 10 -- which would take me 5 minutes to restore. Most folks don't even know what that means and will end up with a nonworking PC -- and no simple way to restore it.

So, enjoy it while you can -- but do not expect it to last long.