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.
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DogsofJune
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I have been mulling over giving it a try on an old netbook. Just not that motivated yet.
bigdogchris
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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.
pendragon1
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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.