Dual boot?

[Walter E Kurtz]

Anyone know if it'll be possible to dual boot Windows 7 with this? That'd really be premium right there if I could get Android and Win 7 on the same device.

 

[quetzalcoatl]

Not that I have heard.
But the Viewsonic Viewpad 10 is going to be but you loose the Tegra2 chip.

 

[Auzo]

Windows does not currently run on ARM based processors. That means anything with Tegra, Snapdragon, Hummingbird, Orion, or Omap in the name will not run Windows (excluding their mobile OSes).

 

[Walter E Kurtz]

Damn. That sucks I have a lot of games for Windows I was hoping I could put on this. I guess there are emulators...

 

[Complex Pants]

Damn. That sucks I have a lot of games for Windows I was hoping I could put on this. I guess there are emulators...

Are all those games touch based?

If you want mobile windows gaming, I would hold out for the switchblade from Razer.

 

[Walter E Kurtz]

No they are not, but I'm sure HC will have some feature where I can plug my 360 controller into the tablet and play games like that too...

 

[Baconator]

Would the Wyse PocketCloud app work for what you are wanting to do??

 

[E_man]

No they are not, but I'm sure HC will have some feature where I can plug my 360 controller into the tablet and play games like that too...

I'd be surprised if they did.

 

[Auzo]

I have tried to use the built in windows remote desktop client from one PC to my home PC to play 3D games and it just doesn't support it. I can open the game, but after that I don't see anything. Not sure exactly how pocketcloud works, but I would imagine that it, at least the RDP portion, would have the same constraints.

 

[Maikai.Guy]

I have tried to use the built in windows remote desktop client from one PC to my home PC to play 3D games and it just doesn't support it. I can open the game, but after that I don't see anything. Not sure exactly how pocketcloud works, but I would imagine that it, at least the RDP portion, would have the same constraints.

Unless you happen to have a blazingly fast connection, you're not going to be able to see any type of video (other than really low res) through a remote connection. Everything on the screen has to be transmitted over the internet.

I use Pocketcloud to do so mundane things like compile code remotely. It's like having a C compiler in my phone! Soon to be in my XOOM! ;-)

You're just not going to be able to remotely control an action game.

 

[E_man]

There is also the problem that most remote connections use their own video drivers that aren't high performance at all. They aren't meant to be, they are meant to be lightweight.