nOS Turns Your Nintendo Switch Into a 'Surprisingly Small Personal Computer' - PCMag

The Nintendo Switch is designed to play games, but a caller app turns it into a "surprisingly tiny idiosyncratic computer."

As IGN reports(Opens successful a caller window), it's called nOS caller Operating System(Opens successful a caller window) and adds the quality to usage your Switch for a scope connected non-gaming tasks. Once installed, you'll summation entree to a notebook for writing, a overgarment programme for drawing, a calculator, gallery, and a to-do app for making lists. There's besides a elemental representation jigsaw puzzle crippled to play.

Unfortunately, there's nary web browser, but you tin multitask by opening aggregate windows and determination are customization options. It surely counts arsenic an casual instauration to utilizing an operating strategy without immoderate of the dangers that travel with accessing the net oregon dealing with malicious software.

nOS has the imaginable to beryllium precise fashionable due to the fact that it's truthful different. Parents volition besides rapidly spot the payment of allowing their kids to usage an app that lets them gully and write, portion besides offering an casual instauration to organizing themselves. It helps that the $39.99 app is connected merchantability for conscionable $1.99 until Feb. 16.