[Paul R.]

It looks like I'll be giving my wife my small laptop / netbook for a trip overseas, which merely pushed up my consideration of upgrading to Win 11 Pro on our other machines where practical. The budget is still very tight, with multiple machines involved, so, we need to hold costs down. We've been saving pennies for 3+ years so wifey can go see some of her family! While my old "netbook" should be fine for her travelling, e-mail, etc., I'll need a replacement / upgrade soon enough anyway, hopefully at minimal cost. And then once in that "mode" & having accumulated some Win 11 Pro experience on a machine with an 8th gen processor (I purchased it as a great / & somewhat lucky deal as a "trial"), I accelerated thinking about our other machines too, both business and personal...)

Any thoughts / input?

Thanks!

P.S. Please refrain from making this thread a referendum on Win 11. Maybe someone else can start a dedicated thread on that. (I find it "ok".) Thanks again. :-)

[RideForever]

Microsoft has to have your birth date to have an account; and you have to have an account for all the new security 'features' you didn't ask for, and everything moved to the 'cloud'. I didn't find any way to escape their 'cloud' account fees by using my own server instead.

If your processor is incompatible, like mine, MicroSloth will erase your entire disk drive to remove it for you, so you won't be tempted to use your 'obsolete' processor. Without warning.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Win11 sucks. I rolled back to Win 10.

[butlerweave]

Download the windows 11 version ISO you want and burn it with Rufus there’s a drop down in Rufus that lets you remove all requirement crap in windows 11 but you have to do a clean install for it to work no upgrade

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[wastedyears]

I’d sooner move to Linux than use Windows 8, 8.1, 10 or 11. Windows 7 forever.

[Paul R.]

Thanks for the comments, everyone. (Well, most everyone.)

My wife settled on wanting a 14” screen, so, I’ve acquired a Win 10 Pro Dell 5450 on the cheap ($54 including shipping), it has a 256 GB SSD (appears to be new), 8 GB RAM (1 stick), i5-5300U processor, battery looks to be good for at least 2 hours as presently configured, Belarc reports no problems, appears HD is clean except for the OS. No power adaptor / charger, but, I have a spare, plus a “Universal” adaptor.

This 5450 is quick - it might be the 2nd fastest computer we own right now, although of course that will slow down once my wife gets done loading it up... In any event, this will certainly be good enough for her trip. The layout is very similar of course to my i-7 8th gen Dell 5490 which I already like, another plus, IMO.

This should be, once wifey gets back, an excellent machine to see how an upgrade to Win 11 Pro goes. IF it goes... :-)