The nice things about portable computers like the one I mention, is that while it is not a labtop I am able to pack it up inside a bag and then plug it in using a laptop power-supply.

So I obtained this portable all in one HP Omni 120 computer ( originally a nurses computer she used for homework ). HP which has been slacking in sales have been turning their leftover labtop parts into portable desktop bundles of joy. The machine I have features NVME which means I am able to use something like a EXT GDC to use an external GPU unit, or even plug inside an NVME drive. Further more the ability to upgrade these desktops would be limited by RAM and matching CPU sockets ( coverters ??? ). Outside of that would be the option to use SSD as extra RAM. The drive-bay fits my Lenova drive bay. So when I am ready I could pull out a drive from almost any labtop machine with a drive-bay ( which many do match ), and use that instead. Which I do. However if you shop via wholesale or even tour public computers you might see the newer variant of this HP machine.

This is the lowest end model of the HP-Omni line, originally a Windows 7 machine running nice with drivers loaded for windows 10 and 11. Keep in mind that companies like Microsoft and Nvida dis-promote usage of external GPU setups. While earlier drivers might function later drivers will not.

This install is 10 gigs, However I had to add five gigs and move the Microsoft ( program folder with edge ) to another drive,
and use an external drive as memory. Even after doing this the Edge was not usable for some reason. Despite having to add an extra 5 gigs it looks like the OS literally deleted the previous drivers. I also had to turn off some memory features to gain back space because when I added those 5 gigs the OS quickly ate it up until I turn off those features.

The photo below shows that I was able to install Windows 11. However attempting to upgrade the Drivers, failed. Even using the official AMD client meant for Windows 11. So what I did rather then use any official client ( as I have seen people make videos showing this machine function with the GPU ), I just updated my windows 10 1903 backup. I had to use "Update drivers" ( windows update ) option. Then I plugged in the Windows 11 install SSD ( as this machine has two Sata-slots ) and had to set the BIOS to designate the second drive as the primary boot drive, and had it search for drivers from the System32 folder ( which usually contains all the drivers ). It updated and installed all the AMD files flawlessly without any effort at all. Without going online or using Windows Update ( which failed before with 11 ). Not mentioning in advance I physically transferred as many driver components ( as read in the drivers menu ) from the windows 10 install ( the system32 folder ), however I am unsure if this made a difference as I opt to search for drivers while in Windows 11 via the System32 location of Windows 10.

Back to the original Windows 10 driver update. Down side to using Update-Drivers on Windows 10, was that it turn on telemetry, Windows-Update, and even attempted to turn the camera on. Among other things. However using "Shutupwindows10" I was able to turn these off afterwards.

Drivers support for earlier hardware on Windows 10 and Windows 11-w11.jpg

Now this machine should supports TPM. I am not sure and the GPT but I wanted to test this install of Windows 11 under the MBR conditions, as I already installed something with GPT. I know it has UEFI as it worked flawlessly with a disk in that partition.
So this was a test installation. Before doing anything I ran Avast Anti-virus and it did found a Bit-coin-miner which I promptly deleted. I also installed scoop and then installed scrcpy.

Now scrcpy works great, however depending on the phone-hardware and the computer hardware it was sluggish. I compared scrcpy usage on multiple machines.

Testing the GPU I took my primary Windows 10 2004 and plugged it in ( secondary drive ), and loaded the games up via the Windows 11 install. Testing games like "TMNT:Out of the shadows" functions as normal, however newer games like "Air Twisters" would function but too slow to playback at all. Meaning you could possibly play all the same games on Windows 10 and thus use High-GPU functions.

I know that Photoshop CS4 X64 will work flawlessly with low RAM specs ( like they all should ). However Photoshop CS 20XX series will not function with low-ram specs.

Loading times the windows 10 was quite sluggish. This is 1903 we are talking about. However the Windows 11 22H2 booted fast to the login screen.

Despite the primary display driver giving me Direct X 12 support clearly was not tapping into the GPU at all, as I believe the driver is not updated for Direct X 12 or supports the function fully.