30 Nov
2016
30 Nov
'16
4:21 a.m.
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 11/29/2016 07:11 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
guess the main things would be video and wifi (there's no ethernet).
also guess I'm assuming usb, card reader, and whatever would be
generic enough for Windows 7. I don't use touchpads.
seems like a real construction project.
so Linux offers decent drivers but quite possibly
Microsoft and/or Asus
would not.
Basically, yes. The problem is that they keep coming out with new chips for
all the internals. (Ethernet? Wifi? They've been making those with the
same capabilities for how many years, why do they need a new chip? But I
digress.) Then they don't bother making drivers for the new stuff for older
versions of Windows. If you really want Win7 and that machine, you could
find out exactly what hardware it has and try to find drivers before buying. Or you could install Linux, and run Windoze in
Virtualbox.
it's got an i7 and 8gb ram. never really fooled with VB.
oh well. love is a sometime thing.
f.
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Felmon Davis
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh