W10 pro budget board

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zeitfest Guru Joined: 31/07/2019 Location: Australia Posts: 701	Posted: 11:36am 23 Dec 2020       Maybe MMBasic for DOS will run on this  ?
Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1646	Posted: 01:56pm 23 Dec 2020         zeitfest said   Maybe MMBasic for DOS will run on this  ? Thanks for the heads-up
lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United States Posts: 3878	Posted: 02:59pm 23 Dec 2020       Looks interesting. I just ordered this Will see how it turns out.
JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 4378	Posted: 03:06pm 23 Dec 2020       Although "for DOS" it's a "Windows NT character-mode executable" so you'd need Windows I gather. Apparently 4GB is "pretty skimpy for a Windows box". John (not mentioning 640KB)
Fabian Newbie Joined: 19/12/2020 Location: Germany Posts: 9	Posted: 05:16pm 23 Dec 2020       Very interesting Product. Thank you for sharing
hitsware2 Guru Joined: 03/08/2019 Location: United States Posts: 738	Posted: 06:07pm 23 Dec 2020       Save $ 5 Probably hard to use with Linux though ( UEFI )
Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1646	Posted: 06:55pm 23 Dec 2020         lizby said   Looks interesting. I just ordered this Will see how it turns out. Nice That has the Z8350 which is the same as my Fusion5 tablet and also this: Rock Pi X I am a bit intrigued by this stuff since I recently, for giggles, installed some of my amp sims on my tablet to see what would happen. According to the software's recommended minimum spec, I have nowhere near enough horsepower but it works beautifully and well within my comfort zone of less than 50% CPU load. I use Gig Performer  as a host for VST plugins and Native Instruments' Guitar Rig 5, along with synths, drum machines etc. When actually playing guitar through it, I am able to achieve a low-enough round-trip latency that doesn't bother me at all and I play fast-ish solos. All this capability in a cheap tablet is pretty darned impressive and now I want to build a more rugged alternative. Edited 2020-12-24 05:26 by Tinine
HellbentHorse Regular Member Joined: 08/07/2020 Location: Australia Posts: 55	Posted: 11:46pm 25 Dec 2020         hitsware2 said   Save $ 5 Probably hard to use with Linux though ( UEFI ) I'd imagine it would be fine. UEFI is supported in just about all distros these days. Three of my Linux machines all run in UEFI mode currently.
hitsware2 Guru Joined: 03/08/2019 Location: United States Posts: 738	Posted: 01:13am 26 Dec 2020         HellbentHorse said     hitsware2 said   Save $ 5 Probably hard to use with Linux though ( UEFI ) I'd imagine it would be fine. UEFI is supported in just about all distros these days. Three of my Linux machines all run in UEFI mode currently. Will your machines boot from 'live' (usb) distros without going through the 'bios' ( or whatever it is called ) ? I.E... On my pre-uefi PC I have set the bios boot order for usb first. I put in a live Linux usb, turn it on, and it boots. With the uefi PC's, I must go to the 'bios' each time .... There is no boot order setting . By what I've seen, Ubuntu is uefi capable but not most distros. Since I don't have Windows, I can't try the Rufus route .
Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: Netherlands Posts: 6101	Posted: 06:30pm 29 Dec 2020       Linux/Windows... X5-8350 Bought a laptop 3 years ago with a X5-8350 in it, when the chip was new. At that time there was no linux support for the audio (HDMI yes, analog audio NO) for that core. 1 year later, still not.  Read somewhere it would appear in 5.10 kernell. Have W10 on it still. Maybe at this moment there is support for the X5-8350 audio in linux. Would be nice, since it has on board 4G ram, but only 32G NAND flash. And I have not been able to update W10 for 2 years already, simeply not enough room in NAND for an update. Basically it is useless now. That your box has an M2 slot is nice. No storage problems. Volhout.
Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: Netherlands Posts: 6101	Posted: 06:36pm 29 Dec 2020         hitsware2 said     HellbentHorse said     hitsware2 said   Save $ 5 Probably hard to use with Linux though ( UEFI ) I'd imagine it would be fine. UEFI is supported in just about all distros these days. Three of my Linux machines all run in UEFI mode currently. Will your machines boot from 'live' (usb) distros without going through the 'bios' ( or whatever it is called ) ? I.E... On my pre-uefi PC I have set the bios boot order for usb first. I put in a live Linux usb, turn it on, and it boots. With the uefi PC's, I must go to the 'bios' each time .... There is no boot order setting . By what I've seen, Ubuntu is uefi capable but not most distros. Since I don't have Windows, I can't try the Rufus route . Hi Hitsware, If you use live versions of Ubuntu (Ubuntu has a company sercurity key for UEFI) you can "teach" your UEFI bios to accept that key (add it to the whitelist). If you do, and insert the USB live distro stick, your PC will ask what UEFI OS it should start (at least my PC does). How your PC adds the Ubuntu key to the whitelist can be different per PC and BIO provider. Google is your best friend. Volhout Edited 2020-12-30 04:39 by Volhout
hitsware2 Guru Joined: 03/08/2019 Location: United States Posts: 738	Posted: 09:22pm 29 Dec 2020       Thank You Volhout .... I enjoy trying live distro after live distro. ( Many far removed from Ubuntu ) Supposedly UEFI has a ' legacy ' setting which allows this , but the PC ' s I ' ve tried don ' t seem to have that option . Perhaps I just need to hang on to my pre-uefi PC for that purpose , but the newer models are so much nice and compact .....