Back at it again!
I used to do weekly dumster diving, behind a computer shop, and I wound up with several old Dell laptops, deemed too old to repair.
One is a Dell Latitude D820, and it has a 64 bit capable motherboard and CPU. It's been running Windows 8.1/Pro/32 for several years.
Just out of curiosity, I wanted to see if it would run Windows 11/Pro/64.
So I cloned my main PC's SSD to a spare SSD that I had on hand, and put that SSD in the old Dell. On boot, it gave me several Please Wait messages, etc. etc. etc, and finally rebooted and came up running Windows 11, like it had always been there. VOILA!
Who would of ever thunk it? The Bios on the old Dell laptop has a mfg date of 2008. Originally it came out with Windows XP installed.
Besides installing a new 120GB SSD in the Dell, I also doubled the ram, from just one GB to Two GB.
With all the crap removed from Win-11, it runs very well on that really OLD PC. It's at least 15 years old.