Any refurbed business-class laptops that are Win11 compatible striking anyone's fancy?

If I might ask for this topic to return to what I had intended it to be?

I already started a topic a while back, that still exists, on Win11 on unsupported hardware and that could either be added to or a new one started. But this topic has been, effectively, hijacked (and I've participated in said hijacking, and am trying to "land the plane.")
 
ThatPlace928 said:
I bought brand new pulls from a supplier who bought a bunch of damaged laptops
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Taking a loaded drive from one system to another will pick up the bios key as it is the same for 10 or 11 and be activated.
But it won't be offered the 23h2 update in October without intervention.
 
britechguy said:
Yes, there are, and it's mostly folks such as ourselves (and amateurs of the same bent as ourselves) that are using these, among other things.

What I mean is that there will be a broader general demand from the residential and micro-business Windows 10 user base that someone's going to fill.
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If changing the registry is one of the work arounds, I don't do that.
 
britechguy said:
If I might ask for this topic to return to what I had intended it to be?

I already started a topic a while back, that still exists, on Win11 on unsupported hardware and that could either be added to or a new one started. But this topic has been, effectively, hijacked (and I've participated in said hijacking, and am trying to "land the plane.")
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Paging @Kitten Kong
 
nlinecomputers said:
Paging @Kitten Kong
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While I appreciate that, sincerely, I'd hope that we, as a community, can "pull this back on track" without the need for formal intervention.

These things happen, but they can be stopped, too. I never intended nor anticipated this topic "going sideways" in the way it has, and I hold myself at least partially responsible, too.

I really just want a collection of "this is a unit I've seen recently" offerings, for the most part, with related conversation. Hence the reason I specified that they needed to be compatible (officially so) with Windows 11.
 
britechguy said:
While I appreciate that, sincerely, I'd hope that we, as a community, can "pull this back on track" without the need for formal intervention.

These things happen, but they can be stopped, too. I never intended nor anticipated this topic "going sideways" in the way it has, and I hold myself at least partially responsible, too.

I really just want a collection of "this is a unit I've seen recently" offerings, for the most part, with related conversation. Hence the reason I specified that they needed to be compatible (officially so) with Windows 11.
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Sorry. I don't know if I did that or not. For sure, it wasn't deliberate. :)
 
Porthos said:
Actually, this should be moved as is to TEO.
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No, it shouldn't. It would be fine to split it into two separate topics, with the "unsupported hardware" part being spun off into TEO, but there's nothing about my initial request, nor the early replies to it, that should be in TEO.

And it's definitely possible to split a topic into two, or more, if necessary, and to assign new titles to those that result from the split.
 
nlinecomputers said:
Which has an 6th gen CPU and can’t be installed without hacking. Never seen a case where anyone got around that.
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I haven't tried to get around it. It's an i5-6300U processor. So far, I haven't received any system messages, nor had any issues getting updates. I guess I'll find out, when 23H2 comes out.

Did a little search and found this interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/o7fb4w
 
ThatPlace928 said:
It's an i5-6300U processor.
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Which does mean it's an unsupported processor. Microsoft has made clear that support for Windows 11 in the i-series processors (regardless of which i-number) begins at 8th generation and later. This is 6th generation.

If you did get a graceful install of Windows 11, and didn't use Rufus or similar to burn the ISO to USB media to allow it to install, you're truly the first recorded instance of that happening that I'm aware of. It should have instantly said that the hardware was incompatible if the standard installer was used.
 
britechguy said:
Which does mean it's an unsupported processor. Microsoft has made clear that support for Windows 11 in the i-series processors (regardless of which i-number) begins at 8th generation and later. This is 6th generation.

If you did get a graceful install of Windows 11, and didn't use Rufus or similar to burn the ISO to USB media to allow it to install, you're truly the first recorded instance of that happening that I'm aware of. It should have instantly said that the hardware was incompatible if the standard installer was used.
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No messages whatsoever, whether about incompatibility or anything else. I did nothing but install the stick and get all the updates. Of course, the machine went through all of its device recognitions first, like it would it you swapped out a drive from one computer to another, then it booted up and I ran the updates several times until I caught them all.
 
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