You will do fine with 8GB of RAM, but I’m starting to recommend 16GB for all new Windows 11 deployments. My advice for you is to bite the bullet and go with Windows 11 Run “msinfo32” to see your current version of Windows. Won’t activate on an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 One such advanced feature is an AI-driven adaptive protection against ransomware that needs a clean base to learn from and thus won’t activate without a clean Windows 11 installation. Yes, you can upgrade from 10 to 11, but some more advanced features won’t function without a clean install. Windows 11 is just the line in the sand where in order to take full advantage of new features, it’s necessary to perform a clean installation. Remember when Microsoft said that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows… just with ever evolving and incremental updates. Looking forward to some genuine user feedback so that i can make a decision from day 1 To put it in context the type of work i will be doing often requires:Īnd occasionally other bits for specific tasks So my question to you all is, if you have windows 11 on yours do you find that the RAM usage limits what you can do on the surface too much In a device with limited resources and no real options for key hardware upgrades this seems like alot to give up. So in other numbers rather than 25% of your RAM it uses 50% and uses 4x the amount of hard drive space.

The jump from windows 10's 2GB RAM usage and 16GB of hard drive space compared to windows 11 4GB RAM usage and 64GB hard drive space My big thoughts on it are firstly and mostly the increased RAM and drive space usage

I have never used windows 11 and am giving real thought on scrubbing and installing windows 10 It will be coming pre-installed with windows 11 So I stumped up and bought a surface 7 pro I5 8GB 256GB So been using an old Asus 2 in 1 and loved everything about it but the speed and ability to do some productivity stuff.

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