You can download it from their site here: There were a couple other reasons as well, but I can't remember specifically.Īt the time of this writing, Phoenix is at version 1.0.8 RC (Release Candidate).
Chinese newcomer on the scene, but appears to be very competitive with Remix.Īfter reading their spec sheets I chose Phoenix for a couple of reasons, mainly because if you run it off a USB stick, Remix requires USB 3.0 and Phoenix can be run off 2.0. * Remix OS which has been around for a couple of years * Android x86, which is the oldest and probably now the least mature of the products
So after a little more research, I discovered several options. A way to actually run android on an x86 machine? Not painfully slow, but too slow to be playable. While it did run all the games I tried, they were slow. And I was able to download some android games to test. In fact, if I hadn't been so exhausted that night and falling asleep while it was running, I probably would have assumed it had frozen up and given up on it. It took a LONG time to get Amiduos configured.
OK, these guys must know how to code some sweet dynarecs in assembly or something, they are the BIOS guys after all ) It says it is the "fastest android emulator for PC". So I did a little digging and found out about this thing called Amiduos, made by American Megatrends, the same guys who have been making computer BIOS systems since I was 4 years old! So I thought this sounded promising. Virtual machines just simply refusing to start. I've had bad luck with that in the past on my older laptop. But I didn't really want to go with virtualization.
So, one of the first things I did with it obviously was to upgrade it from Windows 8 to Windows 10, since that is still free at the time of this writing, until the end of July I believe.Īfter that, I started to speculate whether I could get some android apps running on it.
This is a pretty sweet and fun little computer! The first time I took it apart from the keyboard and just held it as a tablet and browsed a website, I marveled at it for a minute and it felt great! I couldn't believe I was still using full blown x86 Windows on a tablet like device. OK, this is only partially related to the RGC as it has to do with the Acer Aspire 10 E which I just got this past week for the excellent price of only $100 on Amazon new. This article assumes you have at least intermediate knowledge of computers, which would make sense if you are wanting to dual boot your PC :) It will be faster for you to read through my woes of what didn't work for me, than to do trial and error yourself. It's a long read, but I'm hoping this will be useful to someone in the future who has similar problems. In this article we'll be talking about configuring Phoenix OS alongside Windows 10 and how to get a bootloader working with it, which is especially challenging with this UEFI only laptop. Later, once I actually get it working properly, I'll post a proper "how to" article. So I post this in hopes that it will come up in a future google search for someone who has some specific questions about the Acer Aspire Switch 10 E. Update: Originally I was going to call this article "How to dual boot.", but after somewhere between 8-12 hours of intense research and trial and error, I still haven't reached my goal.