mikkydoos Posted January 15, 2014 Posted January 15, 2014 (edited) Hi, I'm ready to buy some Windoze tablets. Need to run Either Win7 Pro or Win8(.1) Pro on them. Anyone know which devices I can either upgrade or downgrade. RT can't be wiped can it? UEFI bios issue? I need to put a custom windows image on them from WDS. Preferably £500 or less. Any help appreciated Cheers Edited January 15, 2014 by mikkydoos
rich_tech Posted January 15, 2014 Posted January 15, 2014 RT wont work on windows 7 / 8 Pro versions anyway, its ARM architecture not x86/x64 based. 1
truebluesteve Posted January 15, 2014 Posted January 15, 2014 We've just bought some Dell Venue 8 tablets and they are running 8.1 but the equivalent to the Home Edition of Windows 7. This means you can't join a domain but can run Windows programs, which is what our Science department are doing (Data Harvest, Picoscope etc). They were about £190 and so far we have been pretty impressed - it also comes with Office 2013. They do an 11" version which runs can run 8.1 Pro and comes with different processor options. The Atom version is £459.00 Cheers Steve
JOrdan01070 Posted January 15, 2014 Posted January 15, 2014 Speak to Colin at very PC i am waiting for one so the head can demo it comes in around £400 but you can change the spec to suit.
LeMarchand Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 No idea what these are like, but the prices aren't bad: Toshiba Encore £244 Dell Venue £240 Can't see why they wouldn't be image-able assuming you have the time to spend getting past the UEFI and either don't mind installing from USB or have the right type of USB/LAN adapters.
abillybob Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 Dell Venue is quite good! I have had a play with one runs very well!! I know back in the day I had an Asus Smart Tab ME4000C (I think is the model number) and with my Network Manager at my last school we put a new Windows 8 Enterprise onto it and it worked perfectly fine an deleted all the bloatware! So I know these particular tablets can be reimaged and made to work for a domain!
CamelMan Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 Im waiting on delivery of the Dell Venue - the hardware is the same between the standard and pro editions. 8 pro is available from EES so I cant see why is cant be upgraded. I did see someone on here did the upgrade on a Win8 tab using a usb host adaptor on a different tab - but the process should be the same.
sted Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 Dell Venue is quite good! I have had a play with one runs very well!! I know back in the day I had an Asus Smart Tab ME4000C (I think is the model number) and with my Network Manager at my last school we put a new Windows 8 Enterprise onto it and it worked perfectly fine an deleted all the bloatware! So I know these particular tablets can be reimaged and made to work for a domain! how did you upgrade the os I cant get mine to boot from anything but its internal drive?
abillybob Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 @sted pretty sure I found it somewhere on this thread but you do need a OTG Usb adapter! Asus Vivotab Smart ME400 experience - Page 44
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