[itanium21]

Hello, I know it's early to think about it now, but, if I'm not wrong, then there was a video or article with windows8 preview on tablet with tegra 2. Of course it had 1gb ram, but as we all know windows 8 should be faster than windows 7 on the same hardware. And as we all know that you can run windows 7 on 512 mb ram.
Anyone knows something about windows8 on ARM? I know that normal old windows programms will not run on ARM, but I just find windows 8(ARM edition) more attractive than android.


FROM XDA :
WoA (Windows on ARM)
WoA requirements from different sources:
- 10.1” display with 1366x768 min resolution (though smaller screens may be supported with reduced functionality)
- Volume Control, Windows, Rotation, Lock power buttons
- Dual core CPU with hardware accelerated GPU
- at least 1 Gb RAM
- min 16 Gb fixed storage
- 100mW idle power in standby

- WoA 8 would require UEFI to boot (instead of BIOS on x86), ACPI is required too. So no WoA to existing devices (they don't have UEFI/ACPI and I don't think that anyone would waste his time on emulating them).

This post has been edited by itanium21: 22 September 2011 - 07:07 AM

[chiefwhosm]

Remember that the first windows 8 version shown at the microsoft conference ran on Tegra2, so our cpu at any rate is a good thing to have

[itanium21]

So destiny of Windows8 on Hannspad is in hands of talanted enthusiasts as it is with honeycomb.

This post has been edited by itanium21: 22 September 2011 - 07:31 AM

[chiefwhosm]

Hmmm, well while those who got us honeycomb are indeed talented, microsoft are sure to be a harder nut to crack in terms of legality etc than open source stuff.

And I'd suspect microsoft to be trying to claim a large market share against google and won't (hopefully) just make an OS supported on only some devices.

Chief

[hannsuser]

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at least 1 Gb RAM

a stumbling block maybe? as the Hannspad only comes with 512mb RAM

[itanium21]

From Microsoft.com
Windows 7 system requirements:

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

•1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

•1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

•16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

•DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

I know that it's for windows 7, but I have tested windows 7 on 512MB ram and it runs normal. And windows 8 should be even more optimised.
Don't know about ARM version, but I think that it should be even requirement-friendlyier than x86-64 version.

[will8578]

Sorry to rain on ur parade, but dont you think they should concentrate on getting a full proper working honeycomb rom/kernel, and then maybe think about ice cream sandwich yumyum lol no doubt some clever sod somewhere will be working on porting windows

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[pinchez]

I would rather the talented bods put all there efforts in to Honeycomb, I have enough windows devices already

[AndroidForEver]

pinchez, on 23 September 2011 - 01:55 PM, said:

I would rather the talented bods put all there efforts in to Honeycomb, I have enough windows devices already

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[itanium21]

Well, would be nice to get windows8 tablet for Hannspad price.
Have been using mine for a while and it's a first android device for me.
Now I do have a little disappointment in android.

[chiefwhosm]

While I too would like hardware accelerated honeycomb/ice cream, I think it'd still be fun to try windows 8 on the hannspad, just think a BSOD on our beloved hannspad - what fun!

[imayoda]

nvidia showed win8 on a quad core arm dev board.. who cares about windows? better a cup of ubuntu

[chiefwhosm]

Okay, a kernel panic instead of a BSOD

[peppens1]

the ASUS VIVO TAB RT has "windows RT" that is a minor release of windows8.
This tablet is based on tegra3.

So I think....the hannspad is tegra 2. . . windows rt may be compatible...