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Breathe new life into your ancient, dust-covered laptop by installing ChromeOS Flex.

have a long list of system requirements, resulting in many devices not being able to keep up. Over time, old iterations of software stop getting updates, which in this case means your computer will be useless.

But before you abandon your old laptop, consider giving it new life by turning it into a dedicated Chrome device. Google’s free operating system makes it possible and it’s fairly easy to set up.can turn any old PC or Mac into a Chromebook—even ones you’d consider too slow and outdated to use. This is a great solution if you can’t or won’t upgrade your machine, or just need a general-purpose computer for the family.

First, ChromeOS Flex doesn’t offer every feature a Chromebook does. You won’t be able to install Android apps or, for example, and there’s no Linux development environment, either. The good news is that this won’t be a problem if you just want a computer for web browsing. The operating system also has minimum requirements, and it’ll only work on x86 processors. That’s basically anything made by Intel or AMD.

You’ll also need a USB flash drive or SD card, with at least 8GB of storage space. Note that this process will also completely erase everything on the drive, so make sure there’s nothing important there either. Finally, you will need access to Google Chrome. This can be the same computer you intend to install ChromeOS Flex on, or it can be another machine entirely.The first thing you’ll need to do is put ChromeOS Flex on a flash drive or SD card.

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