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• Also: 5 reasons why Chromebooks are the perfect laptop for most peopleWhile many old systems have a good chance of working fine with ChromeOS Flex, there is one major caveat: the software only runs on 64-bit systems; 32-bit CPUs (increasingly rare, even 10 years ago) will not work..
• Also: 5 reasons Chromebooks are the perfect laptop (for most users)These people don't want to worry about patches or being a systems admin; they just want their darned websites to work..
• After choosing the ChromeOS Flex drive as its boot source with the EFI, the device rebooted with the new OS, and to my surprise, it was a completely transformed beast -- fast, responsive, and efficient.Then, I turned to an even older device, my mother-in-law's 2011 iMac..
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• They want their desktop to be responsive and they want to be able to watch their videos, make their video calls, access their documents and data, and use social networks..
• They are fantastic for developers and technology professionals, but if you are a typical office worker, a student, or just someone at home who wants to get on their sites and do their stuff, Linux desktops are… well, they aren't good..