Originally posted by iTim:I don't see any reason why not, what's the issue?

). Now I see it's a credit-card sized computer, capable of HD movie playing and many more, and stupidly cheap (retails at $35). My (noob) question is: would it accept Windows 7 as a native OS? On quick googleing I have only found old articles (dating from 2013) explaining that some guy had succesfully launched an emulated W7 on one of these (well, on one of the previous versions, with lower specs and all, but still) while using an emulator and a thousand things I wouldn't be keen to do. I just want to get one of these to have the chance to plug it into a monitor and work away from home (my job software requires very low specs), but virtual machines and the fuzz ain't an easy solution. I see Microsoft is unleashing a new Windows10 distribution for Raspberry users soon, but I don't need W10, I just need XP, Originally posted by LikeASong:Just came across this little piece of awesomeness:
www.raspberrypi.org/
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It might be very common out there, but personally I had only seen it mentioned here and there and never bothered to look it up - I thought it was some sort of smartphone or tablet (maybe influenced by Blackberry). Now I see it's a credit-card sized computer, capable of HD movie playing and many more, and stupidly cheap (retails at $35). My (noob) question is: would it accept Windows 7 as a native OS? On quick googleing I have only found old articles (dating from 2013) explaining that some guy had succesfully launched an emulated W7 on one of these (well, on one of the previous versions, with lower specs and all, but still) while using an emulator and a thousand things I wouldn't be keen to do. I just want to get one of these to have the chance to plug it into a monitor and work away from home (my job software requires very low specs), but virtual machines and the fuzz ain't an easy solution. I see Microsoft is unleashing a new Windows10 distribution for Raspberry users soon, but I don't need W10, I just need XP,
Vista, W7 or W8. Is it possible?
(as you alluded to above). The Pi has an Arm chip and only Windows 10 and Windows RT (which is no longer supported) support running on Arm natively. Even then, the software you need to run for your job will be a legacy Windows application which might be able to run on Windows 10 for Pi, but there are no guarantees. It's a neat idea, but unless you're willing to tinker with it and accept the headaches that setting it all up will bring, I would suggest you look elsewhere. Originally posted by LikeASong:Damnit. Thanks!
What about a native Linux with desktop OS? My job app is a very light app that works over Adobe Air and some team mates use Linux I think (and Mac). Would it work?