[fireman15]

Currently, neither passes eligibility. One because the CPU isn't supported. Hard to change that on a laptop.

There was likely no need to replace your laptop. In the first place I likely would not have bothered if it was running Windows 10. But it is very easy to install Windows 11 on most “unsupported” hardware that is currently running Windows 10. The only complication is that the latest update needs some form of TPM and Secure Boot which didn't start coming standard on most machines until about 12 years ago.

[Myrddin]

My laptop is an Asus model sold through Costco. i7 CPU. 16 GB RAM. 1 TB NVME disk. It needed a BIOS update to successfully keep updating Windows 10. I pull it out infrequently. Time to charge and apply updates. I have it as a fallback when I retire and return my company laptop.