{"id":200,"date":"2017-07-27T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=200"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T10:06:39","slug":"intel-atom-and-windows-10-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Intel Atom and Windows 10 updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent news regarding Microsoft&#8217;s decision not to update some Intel Atom processors with the latest version of Windows 10 Creators Edition \u00a0has caused some confusion amongst techies and users alike. \u00a0Should we worry?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I have three systems running the Atom processor and Win 10 so I though I had better find out.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First of all it seems that the problem is with the graphics chip on so called &#8220;Clover Trail&#8221; Item Atom family. \u00a0As far as I can tell these are the dual core systems that are below the Atom Z3680 version also called the &#8220;Bay Trail&#8221; family. \u00a0So, in theory, any processor that is Z3680 and above should be capable of running the Creators Edition. Run System Information to find out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-201 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-26.png\" alt=\"System Information\" width=\"931\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-26.png 931w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-26-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-26-768x435.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above we see we have the Z3735 and 4 cores. \u00a0This should be adequate. \u00a0However, most Atom processors run on very minimal systems with limited storage and memory\u00a0so you may still run into problems as Creators Edition is a massive 3GB update.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an earlier Atom then should you worry? \u00a0Well, if you don&#8217;t need the extra functionality then probably not as Microsoft have said they will continue \u00a0to provide security updates as long as you have the Anniversary Edition installed.<\/p>\n<p>Want to try to install it? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=203\">Here is how<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once installed you may have problems, give it a few days and it may be resolved by further updates, restarts etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-27-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-221\" src=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-27-9.png\" alt=\"Success\" width=\"1451\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-27-9.png 1451w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-27-9-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-27-9-768x308.png 768w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-27-9-1024x410.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent news regarding Microsoft&#8217;s decision not to update some Intel Atom processors with the latest version of Windows 10 Creators Edition \u00a0has caused some confusion amongst techies and users alike. \u00a0Should we worry? Well, I have three systems running the Atom processor and Win 10 so I though I had better find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[36,37,35],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows","tag-creators-update","tag-intel-atom","tag-windows-10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XT9c-3e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}