You can still find a way, if your tech knowledge is above average and you're persistent. Now, with Windows 8, Microsoft is making it really hard to boot Linux or older versions of Windows It would have come with the infamous Windows Vista installed, but it was relatively easy to install the older Windows XP - or even Linux. We never had complete freedom, as noted above, but let's say you bought a new PC back in 2009.
Your only choice will be to buy a new machine.Īnother area of flexibility in the PC era was choice of operating system. The biggest problem with this is that your MacBook Pro will be obsolete when the day comes that you feel the need to move to a new version of the operating system or want to add applications that it can't support. Some of these limitations have been true of the MacBook Air for a while, but the new MacBook Pro takes them to new levels. You can't upgrade the hard drive or RAM or change the battery. You can't open the case without voiding the warranty. The trend expanded in June, when Apple introduced the new MacBook Pro.
With a tablet, what you see is what you get, and there's no way to give yourself more down the road. Upgradability just doesn't exist in the tablet world. The first sign that things were changing came with the arrival of sealed-unit smartphones and, a bit later, tablets.
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