Reply to post: Re: Old Tech

Scratch the Surface: Slabtop sales slump takes the shine off Microsoft's 2017 so far

Naselus

Re: Old Tech

Not a Windows 10 bitch thread. And yes, it's not actually hard to put Linux on a Surface, as long as you disable secure boot. Drivers can be a pain, but for Linux they're a pain on most proprietary devices.

As for 'old hardware'... It wasn't actually that old at release, but after two years it's starting to look long in the tooth. The main problems have always been the rotten heat management, though. It's certainly aimed more at the Shoreditch Hipster market than anyone who knows how a computer actually works, but that's where the margins are these days; actual performance computing has razor thin margins.

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