Hello, first post on the boards...
My old system, I say old, it has a Intel Core i5 6400 in it, apparently isnt going to be support from what I understand, and will miss support by a generation, as I understand, it's 7th gen+ they are apparently aiming for...
Which is annoying because my system passes all the actual compatibility requirements specified for Windows 11 with that chipset!
MS may have moved the goal posts since then mind, but, yeah... I was a bit "Your joking!?!", as the system spec is quite a good one really, decent GPU with heaps of memory attached to it, 16gig of system memory, it will not be defunct when they stop support for Win10, it has the specs to be a good little machine wayyyy after that, but MS has decided it just isnt good enough! :/
So, I looked into the Mac, if MS are going the "We're just dropping it" route, and bought a Mac Mini, I've never been keen on Apples approach, walled garden, expensive repairs etc etc, but as the years have rolled on, if you ask me, it's all started to fuse together, noone wants you to fix stuff, everything IS expensive, and, every man and his dog are looking to get on "App Stores", be it Apples, Play, Steam etc etc So, if you cannot beat'em and all that...
And well, I've quite enjoyed using OSX again, it's fluffy, had it about a month now, M1 chipset, all the software I need is on it, I installed Parallels (Trail), chuck Win10 ARM on it to see whats what, and do you know what... I've never needed to open it, all the software I use is pretty much on here, I use Libre Office anyway, so thats auto sorted, I subscribe to Adobe for Premier Pro and Photoshop, they work, AGK works, and pretty much overjoyed last night when I tried Cerberus, and well, it was a case of downloading, whipping something in there, and getting it in the simulator without fannying on...
The only thing that doesnt work is B4x which I use, but, I have a Surface, which, will do the job, compile times are longer, but, bearable. Other then that, yeah... Made the change, give my younger brother my Windows desktop which MS dont want to support, should see him out, runs VR no problem, like I said, great machine, but... Meh... Seems how it's going the next upgrade I give myself after using the Mac Mini and knowing I can pretty much do what I did on a Windows PC will probably be an iMac.
Not that it will make a dint me looking elsewhere from Windows due to MS's decision, but, I very much doubt I'm not the only one... Oh, and one more little piss take from MS which I find out of order, is they are still selling stuff on their website that wont be compatible with Win11... That's just a bloody cheek if you ask me!
Dabz