Should you replace your Windows 10 PC on Prime Day? Here’s how to know
To date, you should know that Microsoft has tried to move away from Windows 10 and Windows 11 by October 2025. What you may not know is even if you can even upgrade your existing PC to Windows 11 – and if you can’t do it.
Think about it this way: there is no good time for your refrigerator to be heard. But if this is the case, the best time is just before a big sale.
This is where we are right now. Amazon’s first -day sales event will take place between July 8 and 11, offering hundreds of good deals on various devices. Hiding in the future, however, is a deadline: the end of life of Windows 10 in October. If you have an old Windows 10 PC which is not eligible for Windows 11, you face three unpleasant choices: keep using it in its unrealized condition, pay for one year of support (in one way or another), or replace the PC entirely with an improved model.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know if you can Go to Windows 11 or if you have to buy a new PC? This is the perfect time to answer this question. If you have an older machine and Microsoft does not allow you to go to Windows 11, you will Need to replace it possibly – and it is better to do it when sales abound.
Checking PC health at the rescue
Microsoft provides three ways to check if your PC meets Windows 11 hardware requirements, but the easiest thing is to enter the free PC health check application from Microsoft (download link).
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PC health control itself is a rather useless application, but it has one thing to follow: a large labeled blue button Check now This allows you to see if your PC meets the hardware requirements for Windows 11. If this is not the case, you will instantly see where your PC fails: no secure start, less than 4 GB of RAM or 64 GB of storage, etc.
One of the controversial requirements for Windows 11 is a trusted platform module, a cryptographic locking box that exists is on your PC as a discreet chip or is integrated into the processor itself. For all the noise on TPMs and what to do to allow them, I had to go deep enough in my figurative closet to find a device doesn’t Qualify for Windows 11.
The one I found was Microsoft’s Pro 3 surface, the 11 -year -old Windows tablet which filled the Microsoft “rule” and launched the surface range. Oddly, it was not the absence of a TPM that condemned the tablet – just the age of the processor itself. (Yes, Windows thinks it has a TPM 2.0.)
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At this stage, I was not too interested in devoting the time that the tablet would have to spend Windows 11. But if this pro 3 surface was to be my only PC, I would like to know if I risked malicious software infections after the Windows 10 support is finally broken.
Of course, if your PC do Qualifying for Windows 11, we have a Windows 10 upgrade guide to Windows 11, step by step. If this is not the case, you will possibly have to act – and it is up to you to decide if you use Amazon’s first day sales to invest in a new PC.
