Interesting. It's a surface studio 1 - the biggest thing it has going for it is the 4500 X 3000 display resolution hitched to a Nvidea Geforce TX 965M Other than that the CPU is a rather anemic (by todays' standards) Gen 6 i7
The only reason I still screw with it is because of that screen. I really dislike multiple monitors hanging off 1 display card even though that is the standard Way these days to achieve that kind of resolution. Even a typical 4K monitor does not have that kind of resolution - yet. But the camera in it is fried. For a while it worked then one day I was moving the monitor and it stopped. I think some of the wires inside of the hinge are broken. It's a bad design because of that as sooner or later the video cable that runs through the hinge will fray. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Eldo Varghese Sent: Monday, May 4, 2026 3:15 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Speaker for May General Meeting? Highly recommended: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface My bil has multiple old surface devices, it's fun getting various distro running on it. -Eldo On 5/4/26 15:12, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Loren M. >> Lang >> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2026 2:45 AM >> To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Off-topic >> and potentially flammable discussion' <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Speaker for May General Meeting? > >> Generally, the install doesn't add new root keys, although firmware/BIOS >> updates can update the keys in the UEFI firmware variables. These are >> generally signed by >the PK that the BIOS vendor embeds in the firmware to >> begin with. > > That is the part I missed. > > One of my machines at work is a Microsoft Surface Studio. MS > distributes BIOS updates directly for this via windows updates. I > just went through reinstalling windows on it (since it's CPU is a > generation 6 core i7, thus not "orficially supported for windows 11, > you must reinstall every time they release a new build) > > The Secure Boot key in the BIOS was NOT updated. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > I guess MS's policy is "if it's not gen 8 or better then FU even if we > manufactured it and you are running our crappy software on it" > > Sigh. > > Ted > > >
