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Can't wait! Cheap linux laptops are abound!
Prices of Windows 11 incompatible hardware have been dropping like a rock all year as companies upgrade their fleets, and it'll get far more pronounced once consumers start getting squeezed to upgrade to continue using software XYZ
7th gen Intel laptops with GPUs are already really cheap
If I were to buy used laptop, I'd want 8th gen or newer because that's where intel finally made more than dual core for mobile.
I literally daily drive a laptop with a 4c/8t processor (6700-HQ) so I'm not sure what you're talking about other than perhaps the lower end i5s
Edit to add, my other laptop with a third gen i5 is getting pretty long in the tooth though, so I wouldn't go out of my way for something that old though
Unfortunately when there's 11 will install on an 8th as long as it has a TPM.
Ah, so there won't be overflow of big bussiness 8th gen laptops... Nevermind, I'd still avoid 7th gen myself.
11 losses support for 7th gen or earlier and non-TPM enabled equipment.
You might still be able to find something newer that lacks TPM.
Alternatively, we don't really know why they chose 7th gen as the cutoff for sure. It is quite possible that they're just going by Intel's own support structure. Until dropped support for 7th gen due to an age out scenario so it's absolutely possible that in another couple of years still drop support for 8th gen.