With 32GB of storage, you probably wouldn't want to.

Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate they stick an amazing screen into a laptop with only as much storage space as a Micro SD card. And then charge $1300 for it.

or Linux?

Really, I'd take anything but Chrome OS... But with 32 GB of storage I doubt Windows would even fit.

An install of Windows 8 takes only 10.2GB. Add swap and hiberation files and maybe it will reach 15 to 20GB overall.

I think this is really trying to push the hardware to do something it isn't designed for. Why get this when you can get a Retina Macbook and install Windows on that for less. I believe they are available for around $1350 right now on sale. You'd get 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD and better performance/battery life. Plus you can then run Chrome on that :)

>I think this is really trying to push the hardware to do something it isn't designed for

We wouldn't be on Hacker News if we didn't try to push things to do something it wasn't designed for :)

Anyway, the Retina Macbook you talk about is missing the touchscreen part which is a big thing for Windows 8.