Had zero problems with any Google apps, Microsoft Office Online, Slack, Discord, or anything else I put to the test. With respect to usability, Chrome OS runs any app that runs in the Chrome browser. (Still can’t believe this… Is the browser cheating maybe?) The most surprising test was playing a 4K Youtube video on fullscreen, which was not a problem at all. Almost as if the laptop itself was switched to a high-end one. While it was struggling with switching between programs and playing videos in Windows 10, in Chrome OS everything was fluid. This potato of a machine turned into a lightning-fast and pretty capable computer. The installation itself is pretty much booting into linux and running a script. I had a really hard time getting into the bios and booting from a pendrive with this particular device, but this has nothing to do with Chrome OS. Installation is not as straightforward as with Ubuntu or Windows, but it’s also not too hard. Chrome OS with the launcher opened and extended to full screen No wonder why Windows 10X copied the concept and the UI almost fully.
For light work and web-browsing, this seemed a viable solution for my old and weak laptop. It caught my attention as it promised a lightweight system that besides running the Chrome browser can also run Android and Linux apps. Have you ever tried to update to a new Windows 10 version on such a device?įor a few years it was just collecting dust, but then I found a cool video on Youtube about installing Chrome OS on a laptop or PC. Everything else was excruciatingly slow too. It seems the Celeron N3350 processor was too weak to even play youtube videos without stuttering. ASUS VivoBook Flip 12 TP202NAįor taking notes it was satisfactory, but it chocked on any other task I ever forced it to do.
(And by essential I mean the bare minimum) It even had a touchscreen and you could transform it into a tablet. This thing seemed a good fit for the light and small conditions and even had 4 GB of RAM, which is essential if you want to use a modern operating system with a browser. I needed something light and small to take notes at work. My story starts with a pretty little device called the ASUS VivoBook Flip 12.
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