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So many laptops with i7-7700H.... this is not very "green" from Microsoft.
Windows 11 for i7-7700HQ Processor
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Desszi Porkoláb
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Dear Microsoft,
I would have download the new Windows 11 but it is not approvaled for my processor. (i7-7700HQ)
Can I hope that it will be available in the future?
Thank you your answer in advanced!
Best regards,
Mercedesz Porkolab
Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | User experience | Other
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DAN Begley 6 Reputation points2021-10-07T00:35:53.367+00:00 I am running windows 11 on my 7700HQ.
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J.S 16 Reputation points2021-10-07T09:06:12.83+00:00 Have you noticed any issues with such a setup? Like freezes, crashes, performance dip of or problems with updates?
How did you install it? Have you used iso image and performed clean installation?
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DAN Begley 6 Reputation points
2021-10-07T11:16:47.74+00:00 I’ve had 0 issues. I downloaded it through the dev channel and have been running it for two months.
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Michael Taylor 60,331 Reputation points2021-10-07T14:31:58.747+00:00 Just be aware that you can disable the CPU check and/or reinstall the OS without the CPU check currently but MS has been very clear that doing so means you may or may not get any Windows updates in the future. Thus it is an unsupported situation. If you're comfortable with that then fine.
My suspicion is that MS will push out an update or enable a flag in Windows Update in the future to shut off updates for any unsupported systems. They may not be feeling confident in it right now (probably grabbing metrics) such that they would want to turn it on and have a bunch of people not be able to upgrade.
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Bertus T 6 Reputation points2021-10-09T05:14:34.807+00:00 It's available for this processor through the beta channel of Windows Insider, so maybe that means they plan to add it in the future? I'm not sure, but I'm installing the beta as I type.
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Dharmawan Setiadi 1 Reputation point2021-12-26T00:10:23.843+00:00 the CPU changes that are most surprising here. Windows 11 will only officially support 8th Gen and newer Intel Core processors, alongside Apollo Lake and newer Pentium and Celeron processors.
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Dharmawan Setiadi 1 Reputation point
2021-12-26T00:10:33.993+00:00 the CPU changes that are most surprising here. Windows 11 will only officially support 8th Gen and newer Intel Core processors, alongside Apollo Lake and newer Pentium and Celeron processors.
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J.S 16 Reputation points
2021-10-08T12:50:32.567+00:00 I installed windows 11 on an external USB SSD disk using Rufus (as Windows To Go) for testing on the i7-7700HQ processor and it works nice and updates are available. So far so good. If it will work fine for a couple of days/weeks then probably I will decide to perform a clean install on my XPS.
What I noticed on my gaming PC, clean install windows 11 works much better than after upgrade from win10.
On the "updated" version I've seen freezes and temporary performance and fps drops. On a clean install, everything seems fine. Plus clean install took much less time than the update.I hope they will add the I7-7700HQ to the supported list.
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Docs 15,846 Reputation points2021-10-17T01:42:22.32+00:00 The Windows update software is designed to fail for upgrades from Windows 10 to Windows 11 when there are unsupported hardware / BIOS / drive configurations.
There are 4 options:
1) Report issues / concerns to Microsoft via the feedback hub
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/send-feedback-to-microsoft-with-the-feedback-hub-app-f59187f8-8739-22d6-ba93-f666129493322) Continue to use Windows 10 and wait to see if Microsoft modifies the supported CPU
3) Install Windows 11 knowing the risks and benefits:
a) Backup important files to another disk drive or the cloud then CLEAN INSTALL Windows 11
b) Modify the REGISTRY and other settings so that the Windows update does not recognize that the computer has failed to meet the supported requirements
(there are multiple websites that have reported how this is done)Some of the risks in clean install or modifying settings:
Windows 11 is designed to have substantially fewer crashes than Windows 10.
And Windows 11 is designed to have substantially increased security than Windows 10.Modifying settings or clean install typically allows the installation of Windows 11.
The computer may not benefit from the better performance designed for Windows 11.
And the computer may at any time in the future have failure to update or upgrade Windows and Microsoft Defender.
So far end users that have clean install Windows 11 have not reported problems updating..
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Michael Taylor 60,331 Reputation points
2021-10-06T20:22:17.077+00:00 It is possible it could be added in the future but I wouldn't count on it. As mentioned in this blog article, Win11 requires features of the processor that weren't fully supported until the 8th gen and/or had perf/reliability issues. Since you have a 7th gen it isn't supported. MS has backtracked on some 7th gen processors but with caveats. The actual rationale's are elusive as discussed here.
You can continue to use Win10 however. If you really want to run Win11 then you'll need to update the processor.