That’s a bummer.

I saw a surface X today in Akihabara. 127,800 yen. USED. Granted electronics are more expensive in Japan, but it’s just too much. And I hate that kickstand thing so much for a daily driver. The Asus is annoying lacking a backlit keyboard, I don’t know why I miss that, when I TouchType… I guess it’s instantly being able to find the home row?

I guess it’s funny that I have both RT models, and a pro 4.. Or is it a 5? I forget, I never really use it once I got vdi and remote desk access.

The kickstand just isn’t good for working on a bed, a car or train. Forget about a plane .

I hope one day we get arm boards with DDR and pcie_16 slots. You know, like a real computer. So I can load it out with 256gb of ram, a few tb of storage and a real GPU.

Hello,

Forget about WSL2 for SD835*, it will almost certainly never come. WSL2 relies on a lightweight virtual machine using Hyper-V under the hood.

WSL2 on ARM64 shipped as a part of Windows 10 version 1903 already too.

For ARM64 desktop platforms with Windows, stay tuned…

* SD835 could technically support EL2/virtualization, but for that generation, Qualcomm chose to run their own firmware there. Qualcomm could rearchitect it, but it’ll break compatibility with existing drivers among other things…

I guess at least that means I’ll get WSL2, although man that sucks. I guess there is a reason why these things were so cheap.

Although I own a Surface RT/RT2 and a Surface Pro 3, I really hate the formfactor. The one thing I love about the Asus is the laptop formfactor. I don’t care much for the ‘flip monitor/tablet’ thing but I’d be happy with even cheaper devices that didn’t try to be tablets.

I love the convenience of the NovaGo, it basically is a large cellphone, and adding in the SIM & a 400GB SD card sure helped things a lot.

The real limitation of the Asus NovaGo will be the 6GB of RAM.

Where is the ARM based desktop motherboards that’ll run Windows 10? As much as I love cheap Chinese Xeon boards, you’d think that for those people terrified of a $20 jump in their power bill would be happy to pay upwards of $500 for an ARM motherboard that you could slap in 32+GB of RAM, big disks and an NVIDIA GPU…

Hyper-V is there for 850 and later. 835 firmware doesn’t support hardware virtualization…

For the Hyper-V feature to create VMs properly, note that it’s currently in Insider Preview, and will ship in Windows 10 version 2004.

Virtual Machine Platform is a reduced feature set that is enough for security features and the WSL2 virtual machine, and getting other things to run on it isn’t that fun.

Fixed the SDL issue, 99% of it was me, 1% was platform drift. So now I can play DooM 1.1 with Music & SOUND! yay!

Actually there is 4 notepads! One in \Windows, the others are SysArm32 ,System32 & SysWOW64.

I’ll have to check back on the rest later. Also there is no Hyper-V, but there is a ‘Virtual Machine Platform’. Whatever that is.

As far as telling binaries apart, I built support into sdir to display PE architecture with -dar (see http://www.malsmith.net/sdir/display/) which should be a fairly efficient way to do this at scale. While messing around with a Windows ARM device in the store, the funny part was doing this on running processes – taskmgr unhelpfully indicated “32 bit” processes without architecture, but the telltale giveaway was the huge RAM consumption of x86 emulation. The system includes arm32 and x86 notepads for example – run them both and the x86 one takes about 4x the memory.

Still, I’m curious how you find this over time. The 835 is a fairly early model. I’d like to try this too, but can’t really imagine giving up x86 due to the benefit of being able to run/virtualize any previous x86 OS, whereas arm64 is really limited to Windows 10…

I’m going to try to rebuild SDL with Direct X later on. Maybe that’ll fix the issues at large. The error message itself is kind of interesting:

Can’t use audio: waveOutOpen(): The specified format is not supported or cannot be translated. Use the Capabilities function to determine the s

I guess the Qualcomm Aqstic does things… differently.