devices sold   in S mode  are aimed at   'appliance'   level home users  -   who  have become used to the curated  ecosystem of  iOS and Android  rather than  the  'fiddling'  that  traditional desktop (and laptop) deployments  of  various OSes  have needed 
 
as you  correctly point out  you  can  take  such machines  out of  S mode and into the 'normal'  consumer  Win 10 / 11  'home' editions  relatively easily 


On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 15:13, Kerry Whittle <t2ckerry@gmail.com> wrote:
Nicola,

I use chirp both on my Mac and on a Dell Inspiron 15 3000. It came to me in S - mode but I found a setting that let me take it into regular Windows Home mode. S-mode is just a security mode that won’t allow you to load software except from the Microsoft store. 

As far was the Surface goes, I can’t tell you. That’s why I bought the Dell - because I’m sure that it will run anything I want that’s for Windows and is ham related.

On Jan 23, 2022, at 8:15 AM, Nicola Jayne Hodson <nicola.jayne.hodson@gmail.com> wrote:

and you have not answered the question 

 this OPs question was about S mode   - and the answer to that  depends on  whether  Chirp and signed and available  in the Smode  libraries or whether the device needs to be  taken  to 'normal' windows   to install chirp and  any  drivers  for the  programming leads etc



On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 03:10, robert decker <k7bdradio@gmail.com> wrote:
stay with windows 10, the program works with 10 but no information about windows 11 compatibility.

Bob K7bd 

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 6:54 PM Kelly McGuire <kellyelizabethmcguire@gmail.com> wrote:
I’m trying to help my boyfriend’s Dad pick out a laptop that he can install CHIRP on and needed to know whether the Microsoft Surface Laptops running Windows 10 and Windows 11 in S Mode were compatible. I read through everything I could. I’m tech savvy but know nothing about Ham Radios. I don’t want him to purchase a computer that he can’t download and run CHIRP on. Thank you!

Kelly

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