On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 01:19:15AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> Win 11 has requirements that seem to obsolete a bunch of quite recent
> processors and devices.
Well Windows 10 still has about 4 years of support left, so no one has to
urgently do anything even if their hardware
| From: Dave Collier-Brown via talk
| However, recent AMD architecture changes have caused a large step
| upwards in number of hardware threads: my production Intels have either
| 10 or 18, and my two test AMDs have 512 and 1024. And they draw less
| current.
AMD's Thread-Ripper and Epyc have a
On 2021-08-29 4:14 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Certainly the value proposition of replacing old hardware has never
been lower. System capabilities, performance, and price have not been
improving quickly since Intel Core's 4th generation.
(As I've said before, my main desktop is
| From: o1bigtenor via talk
| Somehow I'm supposed to believe that Windows is serious about security - -
| - - tough for me to believe.
| Yes they will eliminate a couple deep security flaws but what about the 10s
| of thousands of other flaws?
Security is very hard in the face of a bounty of
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 12:19 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <
talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> Win 11 has requirements that seem to obsolete a bunch of quite recent
> processors and devices.
>
> Windows can be manually updated on these machines but they will feel
> obsolete.
>
> - TPM 2.0 required.
Win 11 has requirements that seem to obsolete a bunch of quite recent
processors and devices.
Windows can be manually updated on these machines but they will feel
obsolete.
- TPM 2.0 required. Documented a lot of places. It can be added to many
systems that don't have it.
- obsolete:
