Half-baked OS, with an incredibly slow release. The rollout will continue into next year, even if your PC is fully eligible.
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Microsoft Releases Windows 11, Mac Virtualization Support Still Seems Unlikely
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the bad copy that started in 1985 never stoped... At least they getting lees horrible at doing it
I keep thinking it might because now they have the surface line and they don't want to loose that bushiness. I think another issue is more and more people are using more than one OS and simply locking out other OS isn't the answer. I for example have a windows 10 desktop but I want a laptop and a chance to get away from windows for a while. But I would for sure dual boot / or use a VM if MS made it viable.
Try this for Intel Macs: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...tall-script-bypasses-tpm-system-requirements/
I did it on an older X1 Carbon which did not meet processor requirements. It‘s quick and works well, the question will be whether updates arrive on the machine…..time will tell. It sees that you are working as an exception being non-compliant and gets you to acknowledge
I did it on an older X1 Carbon which did not meet processor requirements. It‘s quick and works well, the question will be whether updates arrive on the machine…..time will tell. It sees that you are working as an exception being non-compliant and gets you to acknowledge
I installed Windows 11 yesterday, as Microsoft rolled it out one day before the announced release date. So far, it looks like it is mostly a visual overhaul, and not so much if you take out the bright wallpaper shown in the annoucements.
Windows 11 takes some clues from macOS, such as the taskbar in the centre, the widgets, and the rounded corners of windows. And I have just seen Satya Nadella's post on LinkedIn on the release of Windows 11, in which he says: "We can’t wait to see what you create". It seems like the kind of thing Tim Cook would say. I suppose the second largest company in the world does not have to copy the largest to be successful, so I think this is not the right approach.
Apart from that, I noticed a lot of CPU and disk usage in Windows 11, much more than under Windows 10. I hope this is temporary.
Windows 11 takes some clues from macOS, such as the taskbar in the centre, the widgets, and the rounded corners of windows. And I have just seen Satya Nadella's post on LinkedIn on the release of Windows 11, in which he says: "We can’t wait to see what you create". It seems like the kind of thing Tim Cook would say. I suppose the second largest company in the world does not have to copy the largest to be successful, so I think this is not the right approach.
Apart from that, I noticed a lot of CPU and disk usage in Windows 11, much more than under Windows 10. I hope this is temporary.
Its 3 months of a public beta, its been in development for much longer than that.
As contrasted to recent MacOS releases, which have been pigs on lipstick.
It should be temporary, I've been running it on an older machine and its been much faster than Windows 10 was.
It runs on Parallel 17, it depends on your specs.
Or spent time with pigs, which are quite pleasant and intelligent animals (unless they are wild boars, which can be intelligent but not very pleasant).
I've been using the alphas and betas for months (Dev channel) on my main machine (primarily to run WSL with the built in support for graphical applications). It's not been any different performance-wise than Windows 10 (I didn't do full benchmarks though). I'm running on an overclocked Ryzen 9 5900X with 64 GB of RAM (and somewhere around 18 TB of storage [scientific computing]) though so I have a lot of headroom. I only brought up these specs because they influence my anecdotal experience in that I don't pay attention to milliseconds in processing or other operations.
The official release should be very solid for most people.
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I'm getting a bit lower Geekbench score on Windows 11, otherwise it runs fine. One great thing is that taskbar on my secondary monitor can contain only apps opened (or minimized) on that screen.
Seems like the way to go, MS! More copying from the MacOS, the better. Fortunately I'm all in at the Apple ecosystem for the moment, but there's always the risk that my employer would force me into using a Windows laptop at some point in the future. 
The core of the OS actually been secretly tested through the insider dev channel for at least 8 months without the new UI changes as Windows 10 builds. The windows 11 beta really has been only about the cosmetic changes.
How is the Linux gaming and program catalogue these days?
I dunno, there was a time when Apple hardware was oh so much better than anything out there that could run Windows out of the gate.
After my last 3 MBP's I really don't believe that's true. I still prefer my Mac and Mac OS, but everything is so web based now, and cross platforming between the two is prevalent, so choosing one or the other for that oh so special work you need to get done is a rarity anymore.
I'm sticking with my Mac, and I'm forced on to Windows at work, which really isn't all THAT bad. I live with it daily (using it more than my Mac, since I sit in front of computers a lot). When I do have to work from home, I VPN into my desktop and use Windows Desktop on my Mac. It works great. A heck of a lot better than virtualization.
I'm on deck to get a new PC at work (finally, this one is 15 years old and really needs an upgrade) so we will see. I'm sure this place will stick with Windows 10 for a while. It's a large organization with 10K + users so things move at a glacial pace around here...
If you just installed it the disk usage being higher is normal. Most of it is it was probably indexing the hard drive and stuff and once that is done it should be about the same. My Surface Pro that has 11 on it and my Surfacebook thats still on 10 are pretty much the same.
Apple are not in the OS business.
They are in the eco system / hardware business.
you can see how bad windows is to support every type of hardware it runs on. Apple don’t want to spend that much time and money to copy MS’a failure.
Placing the taskbar in the center just makes logical sense with the resolution and size of monitors these days. I run TaskbarX on all of my W10 machines and it centers all of the icons on the taskbar. Much better experience when running a 4k monitor (or two in my case) than having everything in the bottom left.
One improvement I would like to see is for the taskbar to not run the entire width of the monitor - make it as wide as the icons you have pinned/open. That would be a bit of a cleaner look. Other than that, I'm excited for the change and look forward to upgrading to W11 (something I haven't said about an OSX release since....High Sierra?)
One improvement I would like to see is for the taskbar to not run the entire width of the monitor - make it as wide as the icons you have pinned/open. That would be a bit of a cleaner look. Other than that, I'm excited for the change and look forward to upgrading to W11 (something I haven't said about an OSX release since....High Sierra?)
Runs absolutely fine in Parallels - I've been using it for months.
If you're currently on Windows 10, try this. Worked for me and I've been able to continue getting Windows 11 Updates:
How to Bypass Windows 11's TPM, CPU and RAM Requirements
Use simple utilities to install Windows 11 on any PC.
I've been running Windows 10 & Windows 11 for a few months in Parallels and I've found Windows 11 to be a little better in regards to Memory usage. I've needed to quit a number of other apps running on the macOS side in order for Windows 10 to run well, while I haven't needed to do so for Windows 11.
For me, besides the Office Suite of apps and a number of Citrix Apps for work, I've been using ACID Pro 8 along with FL Studio and haven't had any issues to speak of. I don't do any gaming, though, so I can't speak to any graphics issues.
I think this is the key to anyone's "Hope" that Microsoft will eventually support Windows 11 running on M1 Macs either natively or virtually. Apple has been doing REALLY well in the consumer space and are starting to catch up in the business world. Meanwhile, Microsoft has historically had the Enterprise market locked up and the new TPM 2.0 requirements will reportedly keep roughly 50% of that marketplace from upgrading. I'd assume from this alone, Microsoft is going to want it's own software running on it's own hardware (Surface) for the holiday shopping season. Plus, there might be some kind of agreement with OEMs for that same scenario. Plus Plus, Large companies like Microsoft tend to lag behind when it comes to things like this, claiming they aren't able to test until official releases as opposed to beta testing. Even though I'm sure they're testing internally. I'd assume anyway. And yeah, they're probably disappointed that Windows 11 runs so well on a Mac as opposed to their own hardware. That wouldn't sell well for them. Not to mention Microsoft would have to start Selling & Licensing copies of Windows 11 on ARM64 which they've historically NOT done. Maybe come Spring 2022 after macOS 12 has been out for a while, things will change. Maybe I'm just being hopefully optimistic.
I wish Apple would get it together. Why not support macOS on a PC. I'm thinking of picking up a new Surface when they come out. I would gadly pay Apple to use macOS on a PC!