A:AnswerIt has Windows 10, which comes with an email program. You can also use a web-based email program, like Gmail, Yahoo, etc. As far as Excel goes:
1) Microsoft provides a free, stripped-down version of all Office applications. like Excel. They can be found at office.com.
2) You can add a full-blown version of any Office program, either through Office 365 (a subscription service).
3) You can buy the Office suite, which comes in several configurations. I recommend the basic one, which has Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, known as Office Home & Student.
4) There is another, more expensive version of Office which includes Outlook.
5) Still another, still more expensive version with 6 or 7 parts, including Access, etc.
5) There are a number of free Office programs from other sources: LibreOffice, WPS Office, etc.
A:AnswerThe Kano PC has 4GB of RAM. We advise checking the system requirements of any program that you are interested in running on the Kano PC to see if the requirements of the program are compatible with the specs of the Kano PC (https://kano.me/store/products/kano-pc/tech-specs).
A:AnswerMost public libraries have Wi-Fi streaming for free, as does McDonalds and most other fat food eateries. Librarians are also extremely helpful.
A:AnswerYes it is UEFI. I just got the Kano PC last week, and promptly installed Linux Mint on it from a USB stick onto the internal eMMC "hard drive". The trick is to press and hold the Alt+F7 keys at just the right moment at power-on to choose the USB stick for booting. Or, the easier way if your reflexes are not quick enough, is to just let Windows start up, then go to Settings - Update & Security - Recovery - Advanced startup/ Restart now - Use a device - select boot device of the USB stick. Most modern Linux distros work with UEFI installations, such as Mint and its source, Ubuntu, and probably Fedora, SUSE, Debian, and their derivatives.
Keep in mind that you don't have a lot of space on the eMMC drive for having dual operating systems installed. I used gparted to reduce the main Windows "C:" drive to about 38 GB, then compressed all I could with the file manager, and set up about 16 GB for Mint, and 1 GB for its swap partition. Leave the other Windows recovery and UEFI partitions alone if you might ever want to fully restore the original Windows setup (i.e. if you want to give/sell it to someone not interested in Linux). Get a high capacity internal micro SD card for offloading all the software and data you can - probably should split it between NTFS for Windows, and Ext4 for Linux partitions.
Installing Portable Apps on the NTFS partition will let you add a lot of useful Windows software (Open Office, Firefox, Chrome, games, utilities, etc) without impacting the C: drive space much at all (good idea for even Windows-only setups, too!).
A:Answer1) The Kano PC runs on a 64-bit processor.
2) We cannot provide specific temperature numbers, but the Kano PC has built-in heat sinks to prevent any overheating.
3) The Kano PC can definitely run Windows 10 Pro, but you will need a Windows 10 Pro key to activate your own copy.
A:AnswerAssuming that the OS hasn't been eviscerated, just Google something like "select language out of the box windows 10" or "change the language on a pc." It's pretty easy.
