How difficult would it be to get Windows put on one of these tablets? What tablets would you recommend for what I want to do?

http://www.teppermans.com/en/catalog/2161-Computers/250-Tablets

How hard would it be to get Windows on these tablets?

I need a tablet to play some low end games .... baseball simulation games that have hardly any graphics whatsoever. I do not feel like sitting at a pc to play them.

As to why I am looking at these specific tablets well I also need to purchase from here as I can get in store credit/financing here and I may be able to get this on a plan where I don't have to pay for 2 years or something like that. Elsewhere this would not happen.

I know I can get Out of the Park Baseball (Android version) but there are other baseball sims I'd rather play so I'd prefer Windows on a tablet.

Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated here.

I'd say pretty hard because as far as I'm aware Microsoft hasn't made the ARM version of Windows available for people to install on devices and the x86 version wouldn't work either, plus it would run like balls and if the games in question were not compiled for ARM they won't work on an ARM version of Windows either.

Well now reading up on the game I mentioned I could play on Android well I guess unlike the pc version it has problems with saving games and there have been strange things happening where instead of playing 162 games the thing continues on to play as many as 200. I haven't seen positive reviews on it or last year's version. So I guess I am left with trying to get a laptop but I hate the idea of trading for one or buying one used as you don't know how the battery is inside the thing. :S

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/cheap-tablets/chuwi-hibook-review-android-windows-hybrid-tablet-3640188/

one of those maybe of interest to you.

more trouble than it's worth. save your money

So this would do the trick? I wish it was a 10 inch screen but I guess I can't be picky at that price.

Also if you and others would take a look on Amazon Canada and see if there are better options it would be appreciated.

Btw the games I am looking to for sure play on it ....

http://www.puresimbaseball.com/
http://apbagames.com/apbabaseball/baseball-5-75 (I have the 5.0 version on cds that ran on Windows XP)
http://www.dksports.com/baseball.htm

Also I wouldn't mind being able to play some older shooter pc games if possible .....

and based on what I am seeing on this tablet on YouTube there are some games that play really well that are much more demanding than the sims I want to play.

Maybe paying a little more for this is better ...

@DeViLzzz is you get a ARM based android tablet then look into windows RT(now the IoT edition). it is a ARM version of windows. your tablet will also need a unlocked boot loader + a recovery to even flash the thing because you wont be able plug in a usb drive.

Like others have suggested you could buy a tablet with windows already installed. it still might be ARM based so be aware of that.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/148841-how-to-run-normal-x86-windows-apps-on-your-windows-rt-tablet

Are the ones in my last post that I shared (recommended by another poster) fine without having to do anything to them?

You can't put Windows on those Android tablets that you linked because they're based on ARM architecture. Windows 10 IoT is made ONLY to manage and create IoT devices out of a Raspberry or similar boards, so no Windows UI or possibility to run standard Windows application.
I don't know what games you're going to play (you named those but I don't know them so), I don't know how really difficult to push are but I suggest you to pick up the second Chuwi tablet you linked since it's based on the newer Atom platform. But I'm a bit concerned about the storage. If that tablet has only 32GB of storage and has an Android partition you're going to have little to no space available on the tablet, especially for Windows updates and you'll need an SD card NTFS formatted to install programs on.
If you already own a tablet why don't you use RDP or VNC to play those games?

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Lost cause, give up now.

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I appreciate the response you provided. In regards to 32 GB storage even if I have less than half that for my games I was talking about I'd be fine. The only tablet I have is an HP Touchpad and it might be dead. I put Android on it before so I do know a little about messing with tablets getting them to do what they are not supposed to do. Now as for what is inside the HP Touchpad I don't recall the hardware but if it was ever brought alive again could I use that? LOL! Also what is RDP and VNC?

What are you exactly speaking about here @Dynamic_Gravity?

I mean this in earnest, not in an insulting way (sorry if i came off that way initially).

What you are trying to do will end up being one of two things

  1. Something incredibly hard that is not worth your time and money
    or
  2. Something that will be an aweful user experience.

Essentially, there will not be a good and easy solution. Dealing with ARM x86 is balls when trying to get something windows related. If you do need to run this specific game then you would need to check the app store on both Android and iOS. Then get which ever is cheaper/ within your budget that will run the thing.

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Sure you could use it but only to access remotely the PC through VNC or RDP. Both are software composed of a server (runs on the PC you want to control) and a client (installed on the device you want to use to control the PC). Those allows you to see everything that happens on the PC and control it remotely. Since you're not going to use heavy games RDP and VNC are good because they introduce too much latency for any modern game.