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It seems a lot of CPUs are not supported, regardless of TPM being enabled or not in BIOS, etc, what we should do to trash our laptops?

Edit: Also Windows 10 end of life It's just too soon...

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To be honest, I would wait for Windows 11 RTM.

I mean if MS doesn't change the CPU requirements, then it means SP4, SP (2017) and Surface Studio 2 are not supported. Not mentioning millions of perfectly usable PCs out there.

I'll bet Windows 11 will be reasonably usable, and favorite laptop CPUs of today no longer necessarily that great, by October 2025.

That's only 4 years from now. How much faster do you think things are going to be by then? Moore's law means we get more complexity, but more speed isn't really in the cards as long as you're using a Von Neuman architecture.

I suspect this machine I'm using will be fine for a decade or two, unless I drop it. New machines aren't going to be 4 times faster, and cheaper, ever few years, like it was before.

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