Where even the newest Macs can struggle under heavy loads and take a half-hour or more to update, Chrome OS devices need little maintenance or know-how.
Booting up takes seconds, apps open in a flash, and there are no slowdowns to speak of ever. If open, close Google Chrome and delete it from the Applications folder. To get the latest version of Google Chrome on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x, do the following: Download the googlechrome.dmg file from the link directly above, not the one that has 'legacy' in its URL. Chrome OS is extremely lightweight compared to Windows and macOS, with most of the heavy lifting taking place in the cloud. At the present time that googlechrome.dmg file contains version. I’m a longtime Mac user but I also have a Chromebook. Then restart while holding down the Option key and select the Chrome OS Flex drive.
To boot from the drive on your Mac, hold Command-R at startup, select Startup Security Utility, and select Allow booting from external or removable media. After registering and downloading the Chrome Recovery Extension Utility, Google will provide instructions for how to create a bootable drive on a USB stick with at least 8GB of storage that can be used to either permanently install Chrome OS Flex on your Mac (and replace the version of macOS that’s already on it) or run directly from the USB drive. To get started, you can sign up for early access on the Chrome OS Flex site. Google’s apps are obviously the focus, but you can still access your iCloud apps too: Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Photos, Drive, Notes, and Reminders, as well as Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Chrome OS Flex is perfect for an old Mac that can’t properly run Big Sur or Monterey that you want to give to a child or elderly parent. Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted that it brings “the same speed, security and simplicity of Chrome OS to existing hardware,” and it sounds like an amazing solution. With Chrome OS Flex and iCloud, your old Mac can become a powerful device again.
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