Using Rufus 3.20, I was easily able to install Windows 11 on a 12-year-old Acer Aspire 7740 laptop. Note that the CPU is a first-gen intel i5-580m (3Mb L2, 2-cores, 4 threads, hyperthreading, 2.67Ghz-3.2Ghz). Using Rufus to remove all the TPM/RAM and CPU requirements, Windows 11 sees it as a compliant computer. All updates were downloaded and installed by Windows Update. Absolutely no issues. All hardware was detected and drivers were installed. It really is remarkable how fast this laptop is now. It's considerably quicker than the Windows 10 installation that was previously on it. FWIW, I have also experimented with various flavors of Linux on it, and every.single.time the Linux installer would take a dump when trying to find drivers for all the various devices in it.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
