You will also need a program to work with the OS image. Here are the links to software you should download to make things work:. You can find many websites that provide Chromium for free, but we advise you to get it from Arnold the Bat. Follow the on-site instructions and download the latest version.
When the download is completed, you will have to extract the image using 7-Zip. Right-click on the downloaded file and extract the data to a new folder. We're using this Chrome OS build , which is kept current. Another popular build is over at the Hexxeh website. This doesn't appear to be maintained as of April , but it will still work. You've got an array of options for trying Chromium OS. There are live disc versions too, but with writable media you're able to save your settings and carry the OS around with you.
It's not advertised within the OS but there's a command which easily copies the OS partitions to an internal hard drive. This does wipe all existing data but with cheap SSDs it's not beyond the realms of possibility you could buy a dedicated drive.
We did try dual-booting Chromium with Linux Mint, but it seems Chromium saw this as a repair state and wouldn't play ball. That's still an incredible feat. It's an important one, too, as Chrome OS improves with each regular iteration of the operating system. In Chrome OS's first year, it updated eight times. Things that were buggy originally, such as touch pad support on the demo hardware Cr, started to work properly.
It's currently on a six-week update cycle. Google has also leveraged its successes in other departments to benefit the Chrome OS. Google's notorious for not always having good integration between its services, so this -- and solid Google Play integration for Books, Movies, and Music -- are welcome improvements. Also welcome is Google's decision to expand everybody's Google Drive to GB when it detects a Chromebook associated with your account.
When you take a screenshot using the Ctrl-Next Window button, for example, you'll find it saved locally via the File Browser.
Famously, Google has killed the Caps Lock key and replaced it with a dedicated Search key. Tap it and a new tab will open, with the cursor ready in the location bar.
What's less well-known is that you can remap the Search key to Caps Lock, and that Google makes it easy to do through the Settings menu under System, then Modifier keys. Here you can modify the bindings of the Control and Alt keys as well.
But also missing is a dedicated Delete key to remove characters to the right of the cursor. The default settings for the hot keys are among the best things about the Chrome OS.
Hold down Ctrl and Alt with the question mark key to bring up a color-coded map of combinations that you can use. The map and colors change depending on which key -- Shift, Control, or Alt -- you're pressing. Google is to be commended for building an operating system that goes from sleep to fully functional in what feels like a second. There's simply no lag time, and the updates have fixed previous lagginess in logging in and out.
Your Chromebook or Chromebox may just be the fastest PC you've used when it comes to booting, shutting down, and logging in and out. Two other low-profile but well-executed features in Chrome are autoupdating and translation. Chrome automatically updates when a new version comes out. This makes it harder to revert back to an older version, but it's highly unlikely that you'll want to downgrade this build of Chrome since this is the stable build and not the beta or developer's version.
You can toggle the build among the three under About Chrome. The second feature, automatic translation of Web pages, is available to other browsers as a Google add-on, but because it comes from Google, it's baked directly into Chrome.
Already mentioned a little bit, the biggest OS hang-up in the operating system is offline support despite the improvements. Chrome OS will support the core Google apps of Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs offline, but for most of your other apps, you'll be left in the dark.
That might not be an issue on the Chromebox, Google's answer to the Mac Mini, but for the portable Chromebooks, prepare for a severely hamstrung experience. Anyone outside of the cloud crowd likely won't be comfortable with it. You can print with Google Cloud Print, accessible via the common printing hot-key combo of Control-P. Google has anticipated the problems that still plague cloud printing, and so it offers instructions on how to do it.
Still, most people will probably find the process way too fiddly because what's simple to print off a basic Windows 7 Netbook will take effort to set up properly from a Chromebook.
Cloud Print does now come with access to FedEx stores in the United States, which is a nice improvement for remote printing. Google says that security will not be a big concern in Chrome OS and that it's the most secure operating system ever shipped. There are some toggles via about:flags and the Settings menu that will allow you to restrict content that requires plug-ins. Cookies, image management, JavaScript, plug-ins, pop-ups, location information, and notifications can be adjusted from the Content Settings button.
Google is basing most of its claim of a secure operating system on a new feature in Chrome OS called "verified boot.
Performance The following benchmarks are of the original version of the Chrome OS that shipped on the Cr There have been significant improvements since then, and CNET will update the results below as soon as possible. Benchmarking the first beta of the Chrome OS proved to be a bit tricky. It's hard to measure the impact of various essential programs, such as a productivity suite or media player, on the operating system because they exist largely in the cloud.
However, because the operating system is also the browser, we were able to run browser benchmark tests against it and compare them against the same version of Google Chrome, but running on a Windows 7 laptop. The only reason not to use Chrome is if you have loyalty to another browser. Even though browser preference is subjective, Chrome is robust, accessible, and extremely user-friendly. It can be installed directly in your existing browser, too. A free Android emulator for Windows.
Easy editing of your personal memories. Accessibility User-friendliness is arguably the main selling point of Chrome bit. Our take Google Chrome bit continues to be a fast, secure web browser for Windows. Should you download it?
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