Create a Chrome OS Flex installation drive You’ll need the Chromebook Recovery Utility. Screenshot: Google Chrome Find yourself a USB drive with 8GB capacity or more, and get all the files you ...

Now that a Google Chrome notebook is actually available (for about 60,000 people who got in on the beta test), he’s making it easy to replace Chrome OS (although to be fair, it’s just as easy ...

Earlier this year, Google announced ChromeOS Flex, a tool that lets anyone take an old Windows or Mac laptop and give it new life by installing Chrome OS. After launching ChromeOS Flex in “early ...

Chrome OS Flex was made possible after Google acquired Neverware, the makers of CloudReady, in 2020. It has since worked with the team to integrate CloudReady into a Chrome-branded product.

The only apps that you’ll be able to install will be web apps, although Google is working to ensure that Chrome OS can interact with desktop hardware such as video cards and webcams.

Google announced today that Chrome OS Flex, its operating system for old PCs and Macs that can be loaded on a thumb drive, is now out of beta with support for more than 400 devices.