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Apr 05, 2019
Need to install smaller OS to really have any hope of decent use from this.
1 of 1 found this helpful Intel made a big mistake with this product and that's why you see this sold very cheaply. Instead of fixing the firmware so you can install a much smaller Windows operating system, they just dumped it cheap to resellers...which made no sense at all because these would have sold a lot better with Legacy/CSM BIOS on them...10 times better at least.
The main issue is system resources (RAM and storage) get overwhelmed by updates...especially storage. Low storage space errors galore after only 2 hours and it just gets worse. This is a result of 3 years worth of updates waiting to be installed.
The device is truly unusable as it is. You can try turning off updates (I don't recommend), also avoid downloading or installing anything whatsoever, but that's a lot of the reason most people use a computer is to install or download stuff. It does not make a particularly good browser because of the system resource issues. It tends to be slow. Incredibly easy to exacerbate issues unless you know what you're doing (are a technical person). The keyword with this is "sparse resources". Don't expect performance if you're choking the hell out of it with stuff.
Ultimate fix is a much smaller OS that uses much less system resources. Trying to find one of the smaller Linux distros that doesn't have one issue or another, but not easy.
I'm trying to pressure Intel into correcting this with updated firmware. Would make a world of difference if you could install ANY OS you wanted...right now you're solely restricted to UEFI-only OSes, which cuts out anything older than Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit.
If XP could be installed with new Legacy/CSM BIOS firmware, that would be appropriate for the amount of RAM and storage on this thing. Holding breath for that is NOT advised, however.
UPDATE: Peppermint OS works fine, but most end users would not know how to install properly because you have to use gparted to resize the EFI partition to the minimum of 33MB and increase the root partition to take up the extra 450+ MB of space left over, then increase the swapfile using a few commands at the command line (suggested size 768MB) and add info to the fstab file. Not for beginners!!!