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Can I wipe out Windows and put a better OS on it?
by inetknght 9y ago
Can I wipe out Windows and put a better OS on it?
- kanishkdudeja 9y agoYou could try out Hackintosh/Linux but not sure how compatible would it be in the beginning. Issues will need to be tinkered with and fixed.
- dm319 9y agoYes, and there isn't a great history with getting surface's to work well with linux - though I think things are much better now. Still, probably much easier than getting linux on it than a macbook pro.
- zerr 9y agoI'm more interested if one can put better Windows (Win7) on it.
- inetknght 9y agoI also count that as a better OS
- overgryphon 9y agoYou could, but not without sacrificing many of the features that make the Surface Book unique. The pen support in Windows 7 is significantly worse, and face authentication wouldn't work. Windows 7 isn't very usable on a tablet. To use the GPU when you reattached the tablet you'd likely have to reboot the machine, also a much slower operation on Windows 7. If you don't want the above features, you could get a machine that runs Windows 7 well with good hardware specs for less money.