Surface go as controller?

[rtarver]

Did a quick search and didnÔÇÖt see anything right up front. My 1U atom just isnÔÇÖt cutting the mustard anymore. Does anyone think a Surface Go would have enough power and what-nots necessary to run CQC?

TIA

[znelbok]

This just reminded me, I heard a news snippet the other day that Microsoft have created a tool to convert win32 apps to run on arm. The developer can re-compile their code into arm code. This is in response to a lot of arm based devices being out there and win10 being able to run on them as well.

I suppose its a case of watch this space in this regard

[Dean Roddey]

But aren't ARM processes big endian? Intel processors are little endian. Though in theory a careful programmer deals with those things, and I have the mechanisms in place to do so and try to be conscientious about it. But the likelihood after decades and a million lines of code of taking care of all of those scenarios is small. It would almost certainly require some hunkering down and finding such issues.

[lleo]

But aren't ARM processes big endian? Intel processors are little endian. Though in theory a careful programmer deals with those things, and I have the mechanisms in place to do so and try to be conscientious about it. But the likelihood after decades and a million lines of code of taking care of all of those scenarios is small. It would almost certainly require some hunkering down and finding such issues.

Maybe you should get started as Windows® will soon be linux based...

...or is it the other way Windows includes linux...  

[bryanb]

According to the specs the Surface Go uses a pentium processor. It runs windows apps in something called S mode. But it says you can take it out of S mode and I guess it then runs regular windows programs. I'm not sure about that. I would be interested in running the CQC interface viewer on it though. Dean, maybe Mark has some experience with the Surface products. Do y'all think it will run the IV.

Bryan


Tech specs

Software
Surface Go
Windows 10 Home in S mode1

Surface Go for Business
Windows 10 Pro

Microsoft Office 365 Home 30-day trial
Dimensions
9.65" x 6.90" x 0.33" (245 mm x 175 mm x 8.30 mm)
Weight
Wi-Fi: Starting at 1.15 lbs (522 g), not including Type Cover*
LTE Advanced: Starting at 1.17 lbs (532g), not including Type Cover*
Storage3
eMMC drive: 64GB
Solid-state drive (SSD): 128GB SSD
Display
Screen: 10" PixelSenseÔäó Display
Resolution: 1800 x 1200 (217 PPI) resolution
Aspect ratio: 3:2
Contrast ratio: 1500:1
Touch: 10-point multi-touch
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
Battery life
Wi-Fi: Up to 9 hours of video playback2
LTE Advanced: Up to 8.5 hours of battery life for local video playback2
Processor
Intel® Pentium® Gold Processor 4415Y
Security
TPM 2.0 for enterprise security
Enterprise-grade protection with Windows Hello face sign-in
Memory
4GB or 8GB RAM
Wireless
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac compatible
Bluetooth Wireless 4.1 technology

[Dean Roddey]

From a quick read, the 'S' mode only runs Windows app store apps. There is a one way (can't get back) procedure to take it out of S mode and you are then running in regular Windows 10 mode, which should work.

[bryanb]

Do you see any reason that VLC and the CQC Camera Widget won't work with this client?

[Dean Roddey]

Not really. As long as it's running real Windows 10, then it should be fine AFAIK.