Samsung Galaxy Tab

[davidanthony]

Can I load Windows XP onto a Samsung galaxy tablet - how ?

[VHG]

No.

Windows is designed to run on a particular type of CPU architecture (called "x86" such as 386, 486 etc - if you remember them - and follow on CPUs using that architecture).

Most tablets use a CPU with "ARM" architecture so would not support Windows XP.

There are probably all sorts of other reasons as well.

But Microsoft have developed a version of Windows to run on ARM called Windows RT (based on Windows 8), but I think it is only available preinstaleld on Windows tablets.

More on Windows RT here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT

[VHG]

btw We should bang the drum about the ARM architecture for CPUs.

It was developed by a British company - Acorn computers -in the 1980s to be used in their Acorn Computers.

But the "ARM" company was spun off as a separate company and the ARM CPU is now used in millions of devices all over the world, in devices like Smartphones, Tablets etc

About 95% of all smartphones use ARM CPUs, about 35% of digital televisions use ARM CPUs and so on.

And it was a British invention.

More here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

[davidanthony]

Thanx VHG, - understand.
Have just got a galaxy and feeling my way around and endeavouring to find out what I can do with it.
Next job is to identify where from and how I can download free music and movies !!

[thumper93]

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