Cheap Android tablet - hasn't anyone tried this yet?
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So, the 7" Dell Venue tablet comes with Android 4.2. Specs aren't exactly out of this world, but it goes for $150 (for the 16GB model). Probably less if you look around. Given that this is running an x86-compatible Intel CPU (an Atom Z2560 to be exact), could one not run some version of Windows on this hardware? I realize the Dell Venue is also available with Windows 8.x, but it goes for an additional $100 or so. I'm merely curious what would happen if you 'burned' a Windows ISO on a MicroSD card and tried to boot from it. Surely it wouldn't be that simple... (The only thing I know about what the process what might look like is what I remember from installing Cyanogenmod on another tablet a few years back)
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So, the 7" Dell Venue tablet comes with Android 4.2. Specs aren't exactly out of this world, but it goes for $150 (for the 16GB model). Probably less if you look around. Given that this is running an x86-compatible Intel CPU (an Atom Z2560 to be exact), could one not run some version of Windows on this hardware? I realize the Dell Venue is also available with Windows 8.x, but it goes for an additional $100 or so. I'm merely curious what would happen if you 'burned' a Windows ISO on a MicroSD card and tried to boot from it. Surely it wouldn't be that simple... (The only thing I know about what the process what might look like is what I remember from installing Cyanogenmod on another tablet a few years back)
I do not trust Dell in the pad market at all. My sister bought me a Dell Streak 7 about 2 years ago, as Android pads were just becoming popular. I was able to use it for about 6 months tops and then it wouldn't charge. Numerous people reported this problem but Dell didn't help. Anyway, the problem was the non-standard power connector which was a paper thin piece of ribbon cable inside the device. This paper-thin piece of ribbon had to slide into the cable connector side but the tolerances were so poor that it would (unknown to the user) bend from side to side. After about 25 charges it generally broke off completely. Terrible engineering.
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I do not trust Dell in the pad market at all. My sister bought me a Dell Streak 7 about 2 years ago, as Android pads were just becoming popular. I was able to use it for about 6 months tops and then it wouldn't charge. Numerous people reported this problem but Dell didn't help. Anyway, the problem was the non-standard power connector which was a paper thin piece of ribbon cable inside the device. This paper-thin piece of ribbon had to slide into the cable connector side but the tolerances were so poor that it would (unknown to the user) bend from side to side. After about 25 charges it generally broke off completely. Terrible engineering.
I should also add, after that I bought a Nexus 7 pad (made by Asus) and it has a standard micro-usb connector and it's been working for coming up on 2 years in September with no problems.
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So, the 7" Dell Venue tablet comes with Android 4.2. Specs aren't exactly out of this world, but it goes for $150 (for the 16GB model). Probably less if you look around. Given that this is running an x86-compatible Intel CPU (an Atom Z2560 to be exact), could one not run some version of Windows on this hardware? I realize the Dell Venue is also available with Windows 8.x, but it goes for an additional $100 or so. I'm merely curious what would happen if you 'burned' a Windows ISO on a MicroSD card and tried to boot from it. Surely it wouldn't be that simple... (The only thing I know about what the process what might look like is what I remember from installing Cyanogenmod on another tablet a few years back)
I don't think it would work too well - you would be lacking all the drivers so I suspect it wouldn't even boot straight away.
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I don't think it would work too well - you would be lacking all the drivers so I suspect it wouldn't even boot straight away.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Why? :((
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I don't think it would work too well - you would be lacking all the drivers so I suspect it wouldn't even boot straight away.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Windows these days comes with an insane number of drivers--I wouldn't expect *everything* to work, but given that the Venue 8 is mostly the same hardware, I'd be surprised if--assuming the boot process gets kicked off--it'd be close to fully functional...
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So, the 7" Dell Venue tablet comes with Android 4.2. Specs aren't exactly out of this world, but it goes for $150 (for the 16GB model). Probably less if you look around. Given that this is running an x86-compatible Intel CPU (an Atom Z2560 to be exact), could one not run some version of Windows on this hardware? I realize the Dell Venue is also available with Windows 8.x, but it goes for an additional $100 or so. I'm merely curious what would happen if you 'burned' a Windows ISO on a MicroSD card and tried to boot from it. Surely it wouldn't be that simple... (The only thing I know about what the process what might look like is what I remember from installing Cyanogenmod on another tablet a few years back)
I doubt it would be as easy as copying a windows ISO onto an sdcard, but you can probably flash an img or a zip. Never used that tablet so I don't know how the bootloader/recovery/boot system works, but flashing capabilities are pretty standard. Of course, if the bootloader is locked/protected, all bets are off.
