Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th Jul 2013 23:17 UTC
"Microsoft's Surface RT is getting price cuts across the world this week as the company looks to boost sales of its first ever tablet hardware." Great vote of confidence on a platform barely out the door.
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RE: Too bad about the whole bootloader lock
by benytocamela on Tue 16th Jul 2013 00:55
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RE: Too bad about the whole bootloader lock
by Vanders on Tue 16th Jul 2013 11:25
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Given that Windows RT devices have to use PCIe to connect peripherals, it would have been stupendously easy to have a generic "RT device" kernel build for Linux or FreeBSD...
Which is why Microsoft locked the bootloader. I can't disagree with that decision: they're not in the business of subsidising ARM tablets for Linux users, and it's their platform so their rules.
At the same time I still don't care enough to buy one, although I don't even care enough to buy a £100 Android tablet so that's not exactly a significant metric.
RE[2]: Too bad about the whole bootloader lock
by reduz on Tue 16th Jul 2013 12:09
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RE[2]: Too bad about the whole bootloader lock
by tkeith on Tue 16th Jul 2013 17:54
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Given that Windows RT devices have to use PCIe to connect peripherals, it would have been stupendously easy to have a generic "RT device" kernel build for Linux or FreeBSD, compared to the clusterfuck that is the rest of the ARM world.