Feeling quite pleased with myself :)

[Phil Deakins]

I was browsing through the Amazon site yesterday and I saw a type of PC that I've never seen before. They are tiny ones, about 4½" inches square, are loaded with Windows 11, and cost between £200 and £300.

I have a few spare Raspberry PIs, which are the size of a credit card, and, although I must have checked if they could run Windows in the past, I'd never checked if they could Windows 11. So I checked, and it turns out that they can run Windows 11. It needs to be a Raspberry PI 4 with either 4G or 8G of memory. I have a spare one with 4G so I gave it a go. Many hours later, and the purchase of a 64G flash drive, I now have Windows 11 running on a Raspberry PI. None of my normal PCs can run it, but my Raspberry PI, with an ARM CPU, can

That's why I'm feeling quite pleased with myself just now. Please post anything that you are feeling quite pleased with yourself about.

Edited July 28, 2022 by Phil Deakins

[Henri Beauchamp]

Your PI 4 would run faster and better under Linux, which would even allow you to run a TPV 😛

[Phil Deakins]

@Henri Beauchamp I have 4 x PI 4s, one of which I use as an Apache web server, and the others weren't being used at all. I didn't expect them to use anything but a Linux operating system, which is why I'm feeling pleased at having got one of them to actually run Windows 11. I've no desire to use it with Windows, although I may do. I'm just pleased at being able to

I ran a TPV on a different Linux machine not long ago. Like Win11, it was just for the sake of doing it. I've forgotten which TPV it was but I don't think it was Firestorm.

 

 

Edited July 28, 2022 by Phil Deakins

[CaithLynnSayes]

By those tiny PC's i think you mean an HP ProDesk? Those are pretty common office computers.

[Phil Deakins]

3 hours ago, CaithLynnSayes said:

By those tiny PC's i think you mean an HP ProDesk? Those are pretty common office computers.

No. They look huge by comparison

I mean computers like this. It measures 11.5 x 10.2 x 43 cms (approx. 4" square). There are more lower down the page too. They are not much bigger than a Raspberry Pi in a case. There's a teeny one that I saw on Amazon that could be mistaken for a wifi thing - not a lot bigger than a flash drive. It's designed to plug into a USB port on a TV or monitor.

Edited July 29, 2022 by Phil Deakins