Chrome OS Flex

Anyone else tried this out for older, formerly in storage stuff. Just booted up a 10 year old Acer Aspire 5253 laptop with a mighty AMD 1.6 ghz processor with it and it runs. Took about 10 minutes to load the OS. And have a free laptop to give to the youngest for him to mess around with that I wont care what happens too, bonus is he gets used to Chrome OS, which is what all the schools around here use. Hopefully give him a leg up. Sure its just a flavor of linux, but it is a very easy install process. I did run into the sandisk usb error that google has a warning about and had to switch to a samsung usb stick to get it to work.

I have been mulling over giving it a try on an old netbook. Just not that motivated yet.

I tried it out on an old dual core 4GB of ram machine and it runs really well on it. If you just need a simple simple setup I think it would work great.

i used cloudready before flex came out and it worked great on all sorts of stuff. it turns old imacs into perfect student devices too.

When the product is free, you’re the product…

I’ve been avoiding google products and services for the better part of a decade now.