Microsoft recently debuted its new Copilot+ PCs with a cool new feature called Windows Recall. While Microsoft intends it to be exclusive to these machines due to specific hardware requirements, resourceful folks online have already found workarounds to make it work on older machines. 

Albacore, a user known as @thebookisclosed on X, has managed to jury-rig Recall onto a non-Copilot+ device with very sub-par specifications. The device in question is a Samsung Galaxy Book Go 2 with an ARM-based Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 processor and a meager 3.4GB of RAM. 

Windows Recall running on no NPU hardware

This feat is particularly impressive since the Snapdragon 7cx on the Go 2 doesn’t have a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) or 16GB of RAM that Microsoft specifies as the minimum requirements for Recall. Despite these limitations, Albacore says the feature works “surprisingly good.”

Albacore has even promised to share a detailed guide for Surface Pro X owners and others on the Windows on ARM platform so that they can get their hands on Windows Recall. 

The x86 crowd might have to wait a bit longer to get a taste of Recall since the developer ML models are primarily ARM64 packages at this point. But eventually, the x86 PC might be able to join the Recall party too.

The concept of Recall is interesting as well as worrying. Microsoft has made it clear that all the processing and data stays on-device, but to think that your OS is constantly recording your move is a bit unsettling for me. 

Thankfully, Microsoft does offer options for users like me who can either opt out of snapshots or disable the feature altogether.

Recall officially arrives with the Windows 11 version 24H2 which is currently in the public Release Preview Channel, one step away from mainstream availability.

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