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I've been thinking about this for a while. All Baytrail Atom tablets support x64 but they all ship with x86 Windows. This is because InstantGo drivers weren't ready for x64 - what allows your tablet to mega-sleep while still getting emails and such. That is supposedly ready now, yet I still see new Spring 2014 Baytrail tablets ship with x86 windows.
A couple days ago the Acer Switch 10 was announced, kind of a hybrid between the Asus T100 and the Lenovo Yoga devices: that is, a 2 in 1 that can have the Yoga's 4 different positions but can split like the T100. This Switch uses a Z3745 which supports x64 windows but ships with x86 and has put some doubt in my purchase decision.
The question now is: what's stopping me from wiping the device clean (and do away with what's probably an awful recovery partition image from Acer) and installing a clean 8.1 x64 Windows? The device support is there, the CPU support is there... sure I'd like 4GB memory for a x64 installation but surely if x86 runs fine on 2GB, x64 should have much problem? I like x64 better due to it's more robust security, and there's a bunch of programs (office/photoshop/etc) that run faster/better/manage memory better in x64 mode.
Am I wrong to think this is doable? Even if another image installation wouldn't want to activate (I don't see why it wouldn't as the device is Acer registered) I get plenty Windows licenses through my job, so worst case scenario I'd just use another license. What's stopping me then? Is there some obvious obstacle I'm ignoring?
A couple days ago the Acer Switch 10 was announced, kind of a hybrid between the Asus T100 and the Lenovo Yoga devices: that is, a 2 in 1 that can have the Yoga's 4 different positions but can split like the T100. This Switch uses a Z3745 which supports x64 windows but ships with x86 and has put some doubt in my purchase decision.
The question now is: what's stopping me from wiping the device clean (and do away with what's probably an awful recovery partition image from Acer) and installing a clean 8.1 x64 Windows? The device support is there, the CPU support is there... sure I'd like 4GB memory for a x64 installation but surely if x86 runs fine on 2GB, x64 should have much problem? I like x64 better due to it's more robust security, and there's a bunch of programs (office/photoshop/etc) that run faster/better/manage memory better in x64 mode.
Am I wrong to think this is doable? Even if another image installation wouldn't want to activate (I don't see why it wouldn't as the device is Acer registered) I get plenty Windows licenses through my job, so worst case scenario I'd just use another license. What's stopping me then? Is there some obvious obstacle I'm ignoring?
