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There were a large number of Intel Atom tablets and laptops manufactured less than a decade ago that were hobbled with I think a 32-bit UEFI which could only bo
by assttoasstmgr 5y ago
There were a large number of Intel Atom tablets and laptops manufactured less than a decade ago that were hobbled with I think a 32-bit UEFI which could only boot a 32-bit OS. I own two of these devices myself so they are not uncommon.
- tehbeard 5y agoI had such a system to hand (my brother's old netbook). Turns out a bios flash can in some cases enable the 64bit functionality. Its not a particularly fast system though...
- blendergeek 5y agoThe 32 bit UEFI actually could be used to boot a 64 bit OS image. Well, you could make it work. Source: https://liliputing.com/2015/07/install-ubuntu-14-04-lts-on-the-2gb-intel-compute-stick.html https://liliputing.com/2015/07/install-ubuntu-14-04-lts-on-t... A friend of mine had one of those laptops and I wanted to install Linux on it. It took me a few weeks for other reasons (those M.2 drives were the worst), but thanks to the work of Ian Morrison, it was possible.
- lynguist 5y agoThe deal with these devices is they have the compute power of a Pentium III from 1999 or a Raspberry Pi 2 from 2015. It’s enough for an embedded system, but vastly underpowered for desktop computing or web browsing.