How to turn your aging laptop into a Lean, Mean, Internet Machine

Musicvid wrote on 2/16/2022, 10:40 PM

Install Chromebook OS Flex dual boot!

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-an-older-mac-or-pc-into-a-chromebook-1848549382

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Dexcon wrote on 2/17/2022, 5:20 AM

Interesting. I have a 7 years old HP-11-N035T with a 2.16 GHz Intel Pentium N3530 CPU that I've used for overseas travel - for some reason its been sitting on the shelf for the last 2 years. I wonder if Chromebook Flex will run MS 365 including Edge, not just Chrome branded apps? I'll have to do more research.

Nonetheless, thank you @Musicvid for posting this.

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Musicvid wrote on 2/18/2022, 6:12 AM

Has anyone had luck actually getting the thing to write to a USB stick? Mine downloads the files and just sits there, on both machines.