With the growing number of Chinese Intel-based tablets, a strangest phenomenon is starting to happen, with some manufacturers now offering users the opportunity to power. replace Android for free with Windows 8.1 on their devices.
For example, the Cngadget site recently received and published instructions for downloading and installing Windows 8.1 on the Teclast X98 3G, a $ 230 tablet, originally running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean but which due to the presence of a Intel quad core processor Atom Bay Trail Z3735D can run either under the OS of Google or that of Microsoft.
If for the time being, the installation of Windows 8.1 on a tablette Android completely crushes the OS of Google, it would not be surprising that in the future, the manufacturers look a little more on the question in order to propose solutions dual boot although it is neither in Google's nor Microsoft's policy.
If in the case of mobile devices with a screen size of less than 9 inches, Microsoft offers the license of its OS to manufacturers free of charge, this does not mean that it authorizes them to make the firmware available free of charge. of users via the internet. However, that does not seem to bother Telcast or Onda, another local manufacturer which offers, for its part, the free download of Windows 8.1 on two of its tablets.
A solution that manufacturers present to their customers as a user benefit. This is also the case if we assume that for the modest sum of 230 dollars, users of the Teclast X98 3G have a beautiful 9,7-inch screen with a definition of 2048 x 1536 pixels, d '' an Intel processor supported by 2 GB of Ram and a storage capacity of 32 GB, with the sacrifice d’Android, all for a much lower price than the Microsoft Surface. All that remains is to develop all this towards dual boot.
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