(Price is in € EUR)
For context, six months ago I bought a renewed Thinkpad X395 for exactly this price and I got: An actually decent CPU and not something as powerful as a Wii, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of actual M.2 SSD, a really nice 1080p Touchscreen, really nice build quality with metal and a nice backlit keyboard. Heck, even when I bought a cheap laptop in May 2020 it was much better than this and it even was brand new for the same price.
I know this CPU very well, for this price you are getting something that has trouble playing a Youtube video in 1080p at 60 FPS and can’t even run the latest version of Minecraft at above 10 FPS. Now imagine this combined with Windows 11 and only 4 GB of RAM…
No, this is not because of the current hardware crysis, this is pure greed. But hey, 1 year of Microslop 365 is included!
I am explicitly using LTSC.
You don’t need a license if you know about massgrave.dev. I’m only using this because our warehouse software requires Windows and the latter is already bought and paid for. Otherwise, Microsoft can bite me.
Personally, I would gladly activate friends and family using mass grave.
Professionally, while I have never seen an audit in decades, I would not bypass Microsoft activation in a professional setting. It’s the company’s hardware, and if they insist on using it they will need to pony up for a licence. I’m not liable for the device if I advise it is not able to be updated and they insist on using it. I will be liable if I use the activation script.