{"id":35076,"date":"2022-02-18T14:33:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35076"},"modified":"2022-02-18T14:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:33:44","slug":"chrome-os-flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/18\/chrome-os-flex\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome OS Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/02\/16\/google-turn-old-mac-into-chromebook\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/02\/16\/google-turn-old-mac-into-chromebook\/\"><p>Google has announced early access to <a href=\"https:\/\/chromeenterprise.google\/os\/chromeosflex\/\">Chrome OS Flex<\/a>, a method of replacing the operating system on older PCs and Macs &ldquo;within minutes&rdquo; to essentially turn them into Chromebooks.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The idea is that if you have an aging Mac lying around that can&rsquo;t run macOS 12 Monterey, then you can install Chrome OS Flex on it using a bootable USB stick and then try out what Google&rsquo;s cloud-first operating system has to offer.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>However, there&rsquo;s currently no Google Play Store, and Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/chromeosflex\/answer\/11542901?p=flex_chromebook_differences&amp;visit_id=637805415333447097-1267741764&amp;rd=1\">outlined<\/a> some other, mainly system-level limitations of OS Flex that distinguish it from Chrome OS on native Google devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/24\/some-web-sites-will-stop-working-with-el-capitan-and-older\/\">Some Web Sites Will Stop Working With El Capitan and Older<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Google has announced early access to Chrome OS Flex, a method of replacing the operating system on older PCs and Macs &ldquo;within minutes&rdquo; to essentially turn them into Chromebooks.[&#8230;]The idea is that if you have an aging Mac lying around that can&rsquo;t run macOS 12 Monterey, then you can install Chrome OS Flex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-18T19:33:46Z","apple_news_api_id":"a8ecb38a-81de-4a78-83a7-05f7478ccb54","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-18T19:33:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqOyzioHeSniDpwX3R4zLVA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1309,30],"class_list":["post-35076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google-chromebook","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35077,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076\/revisions\/35077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}