Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

[diif]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

Ahhh, thank you. So you're taking the RCA tablet back, eh? You said you're going to get a Surface Pro? I'm not familiar with that make or model. I know with television screens, I get mostly Insignia's or Vizio. They always seem to be much cheaper quality. I never run into a Panasonic or a Sony but that could just because no one buys them in this area.

It's Microsoft's range of tablets. Surface 1 and 2 used Arm CPUs and ran a version of Windows called RT (garbage). Surface 3 used an Atom and ran 8.1.
The Surface Pros all run Intel full fat x86 CPUs.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

So no 64-bit? Just 32-bit for all the Surface Pros?

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

Or did you mean x86_64 CPU's?

[stj]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

the surface are gonna be locked down like the presidential bunker - no Linux for surface!

[diif]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

Or did you mean x86_64 CPU's?

Yes

[diif]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

the surface are gonna be locked down like the presidential bunker - no Linux for surface!

The RTs are locked down the Pros not so. A quick search will show its drivers not the bootloader that is holding various flavours back.
They also powerful enough to run Linux in a VM.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

-Windows 10 updated and did the following:

Removed CPU-Z as "incompatible with this version"

Bullshit, Microsoft. Not true unless it was an outdated CPU-Z.

[stj]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

They also powerful enough to run Linux in a VM.

that's kind of pointless, you need to have windows in the VM because you need to wall it in and keep it on a leash!

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

The RTs are locked down the Pros not so. A quick search will show its drivers not the bootloader that is holding various flavours back.
They also powerful enough to run Linux in a VM.

Exactly... and even then I hear it's gotten somewhat better.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

Bullshit, Microsoft. Not true unless it was an outdated CPU-Z.

It was the latest, I installed it fresh the day before.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

that's kind of pointless, you need to have windows in the VM because you need to wall it in and keep it on a leash!

10, yeah; 8.1, not so much.

[sofTest]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

I'll save the money back towards a used surface pro of some vintage, someday.

Recommended. I bought a new 1th gen Surface Pro (i5/128GB) a couple of years ago, and it's the most versatile computing device I own. I own 3 Android tablets and 5 or 6 (mostly i5's) laptops from the top 5 manufacturers in addition. If I were forced to scale down to one device, it would be the Surface Pro.

If I were to knock it down somewhat, it would be for the Type Cover 2 keyboard. If I had used it more regularly at one desk, I would have used some other (bluetooth) keyboard. I'm also tempted to the later gen Surface Pro, for the better than full HD displays and support for 4K externally.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

The day I posted the post saying I wasn't familiar with the Surface Pro, later that night I saw a commercial for one on the tele! I don't mean to hijack the thread here or anything but because it's related to the Surface Pro and we've been talking about it a bit, do you think that'd be a good Christmas present for my wife? She has a tablet that my dad gave her, some free gift that came with his cell phone (through Verizon). It's okay and everything but she uses it a lot!

Do they make any Surface Pro's that come with an i7, maybe socket 2011? Or would that be over kill and the i5 is more than enough?

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

A quick google search showed me the Surface Pro 4 does have an i7 option, but I don't see what socket it is. Back to googling some more!

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/...FQqpaQod8u0AZA

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

They're BGA.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

They're BGA.

Okay. Do you know what chipset it uses (ie, x79?)

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

Okay. Do you know what chipset it uses (ie, x79?)

The Surface Pro 4? Whatever is the newest, it came out a month ago.

[diif]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

Surface Pro 4 teardown here. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Micr...Teardown/51568

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

Thank's Diif!

[dasrkrain]

Re: Ratdude buys another tablet: RCA Cambrio W101 V2

Has been a few years since this was posted. I have recently purchased a w101 v2 and am wondering if there has been any success getting the uefi to 64 bit? I would appreciate any help as I need to have 64 bit Windows on this ASAP. Thanks!