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How to Install Windows 11 Right Now

(Even if You Don’t Have the Update)

The newest version of Microsoft operating system is finally ready for you to try.

• Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake or Zen 2 CPUs and up
• A 64-bit 1 GHz processor with at least two cores

• TPM 2.0 support
• 4 GB of RAM

• At least 64 GB of free storage space
If your PC or laptop doesn’t fit those specifications,
don’t worry; there are still legitimate ways to install
Windows 11 on your computer. We’ll discuss
them later. For now, we’re assuming you do have a
Windows 11-eligible machine. Where do you go from
here?

Windows 11 is finally here. You’re likely excited to How to check if Windows 11 is available on your
update your Windows 10 machine to experience all machine
the new features and changes Microsoft has added Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t rolling this update out to
to its latest update. Great! But updating might not be
as simple as it usually is, so we’ll walk you through computers all at once. Instead, it’s doing so incre-
installing Windows 11 on your machine, even if you mentally, prioritizing newer hardware at the start. It
promises all eligible machines will be asked to update
don’t see the update yet.
by mid-2022, which is, uh, a long time from now.
Microsoft doesn’t want Windows 11 running on
all machines The first thing you should do is check if Microsoft
has deemed your machine worthy of an update invita-
As you’ve likely heard, Microsoft’s hardware require- tion. To do so, head to Settings > Update & Securi-
ments for Windows 11 are quite strict. In order to ty > Windows Update, and see if there are any new
download and install the latest update on your ma- updates. If your machine is one of the lucky ones, you
chine the Microsoft-approved way, you’ll need: should see a Windows 11 update available, just as

history. Unsurprisingly, the "i" is a nod to the internet. which resembled the look of Apple’s new music player, and the rest is docking at a spaceship. The shuttles in Kubrick's film were called pods, er was to be part of a computer’s broader digital hub, like a shuttle (Continued on page 12)

November 2021 11 bay doors, HAL" in the 1968 film. The thinking was that the music play- Vinnie Chieco, who drew his inspiration from the line "Open the pod Space Odyssey." The credit for naming the iPod goes to copywriter ter, the "Pod" in "iPod" was inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Answer: In keeping with Apple’s forward-thinking and artistic charac-