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Here we go again.

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"HP All-in-One PC"

That, right there, is likely his problem. Most all off-the-shelf, pre-built systems use inferior parts.

More so, we still don't know if Windows 11 will be a new OS or just a major upgrade to Windows 10. There is no point in a new OS at this time. Also, many can't run Windows 11 in beta because many things are not finalized and doesn't always play nice with a given configuration.

Suspect Microsoft haven’t finished adding drivers for various hardware driver configurations to the windows 11 package and subsequently the upgrade checker will say NO at this time, my 12 month old portable I9 workstation, was not upgradable last week, but is now, something to do with the high end graphics card installed. Having said that I won’t be rushing to upgrade until at least the first service pack has been released, when they fix a lot of the real world niggles that haven’t been found in Beta resting.

Be interesting to see how it works, looks, although in windows 10, there is still a lot of Windows 7 lurking in the background.

I have been impressed with Windows 10 since I started to move away from Apple.

I adopt the strategy "If it ain't broke don't fix it" so I will wait a good long while before I upgrade unless I discover a "must have" feature on Windows 11. Not seen anything so far. Sounds like an upgrade that will wait for long dark winter nights!

Chris

There are alternatives (OSX, Linux) although it's hard to use them if one's employer or IT shop has prescribed Windows.

There are alternatives (OSX, Linux) although it's hard to use them in the workplace if one's employer or IT shop has prescribed Windows. Sorry about the double post- I can't find a delete option.

Just taking a stroll through off topic and saw this.

I think keeping windows skills sharp by installing it on at least one of your home pcs you're using regularly is not a bad thing. As gc141x mentions, employers everywhere deploy them.
Professionally, I've used and worked on Sun Solaris, CentOS Linux, Red-Hat, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OSX, Windows everything. I am a command-line guy, i wrote tools in perl and python, VBA for MS Excell, etc.
Windows is a deep operating system. Of course it all depends on your role and background and what you do with work pcs. I like Mac OSX and Apple. It's a proprietary Berkley Unix kernel. It's BSD UNIX. It's no revelation why it's so stable and secure. Professional UNIX systems had this for decades.
But I run home affairs with Windows-10. I find it hard to veer away from the oh-so familiar GUI-user experience of either Windows or Apple. But Apple charges a pound of flesh at all times.
Linuxes and Unixes- they aren't the same to kick-back and run things. You have to put your nerd-cap, systems-engineer role on, and can't necessarily kick back into auto-pilot, do everything- write letters, create spreadsheets, email, add devices etc etc. , like you're walking in your own shoes or riding your own bike. You have to chase fixes and workarounds down. It's why Apple is king in a way. They're the one company to make a professional UNIX system and super develop it to be idiot-proof, super-familiar and intuitive and GUI driven.. It's windows over UNIX. Why didn't I think of that? I hate the company though. Too much blatant, unrepentant picking your pocket.

I looked up his original review article and the PC he's complaining about.

He originally reviewed a higher-specced version of the same all-in-one, but when it came time to buy one for himself, found a lower-specced version for $699 at Costco. He noted it was a "major downgrade" from the unit he originally reviewed and recommended to readers, but that "none of that matters" because his needs were so modest and the CPU was "more than adequate", and could be upgraded later if needed.

Processor architecture-wise, there's not a significant difference between the 7th gen Intel CPUs available for his PC and the 8th gen cutoff Microsoft is implementing, either in CPU core or GPU performance. MS hasn't admitted so explicitly but many suspect the way that 8th gen and later works with both TPM 2.0 and UEFI secure boot are the factors. Microsoft has always been under pressure to make its systems more secure. Apple has had hardware-based security and a user-unwritable system partition to protect the OS and boot process for a while now and that's clearly where modern OSes are heading.

He was wrong. Hardware matters. He could upgrade the CPU but not the logic board's firmware and can't replace it with anything newer than a faster 7th gen. He traded convenience and cost with expandability and/or longevity and got burnt. Microsoft gives zero Fs about four year-old budget Costco PCs and wants to move more license sales to VARs as this will undoubtedly accelerate hardware update cycles, sure, but mostly it wants to make its operating systems as secure and reliable as possible. Requiring newer hardware with better security features is the way they felt best to do it. Security & reliability didn't seem to be things the reviewer cared about when he bought the PC so I don't know why he's whining about it now.

Oh wait... actually, I do -- it's an easy thing to complain about and fill column inches with. Instead of educating his audience he's pandering. For someone who's been around as long as he has, who's served on the Obama administration’s Online Safety & Technology Working Group, I expected better, but like most everyone else he's just another IT grifter out to maximize his income. I'd bet anything he has multiple PCs and just picked the most convenient (and likely least expensive) one to bitch about.