Make Your Old Laptop Run Like New

With CloudReady, a Chrome-based operating system, you can breathe new life into a laptop destined for the graveyard. WSJ's Joanna Stern shows you how to get started. Photo/video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal.

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[Undercoverkidzgaming]

I can do everything, but I can't do it, cause I got no snack :(

[DereckR]

GET A SSD. Hello 4 years later.

GET A SSD IN 2021
SSD are cheaper now.

[mlo]

This'll totally work and isn't an ad.
Because *you can trust the Wall Street Journal.*

[rahan]

I KNOW HOW TO MAKE YOUR LAPTOP RUN LIKE NEW

INSTALL AN SSD

[imhazarduz]

I had that exact same Acer laptop and I snapped that shit in half.

[tymachine]

i had been looking for this video for 4 years AND I FOUND IT!

[xxmichixx]

linux mint is 10x faster than chrome os, i have tested this

[beszt]

how much were you paid by google to post this?

[andreacristiano]

2:00 I had the same netbook at university! So many memories!

[hunterklowss]

Now CloudReady is owned by Google and called Chrome OS Flex.

[reginasoth]

I just installed it on my HP Stream 14 and it's working pretty well!

[mmcblkstudio]

Every laptop could do dualboot if you know how. Also, move from Windooze to good GNU/Linux.

[wavvy]

Also don't do this to your laptop if it has less than 2gb of ram, I did it on a dell latitude D610 with 512 mb, and it refused to boot. It even says 2gb is the minimum on the cloud ready website. Since Chromium OS has limited app support anyways, I would just buy an ssd (if the hdd is too slow) and install Windows 7 or 8.1

[nakog]

Remix OS is also pretty cool, it's a desktop version of Android, so you're not that limited as with Chromium OS.

[theincrediblehulk]

To make my old laptop fast, I installed an SSD and Debian LXDE. It works much better than ChromeOS!

[Tech_Champ]

You could probably put an SSD and upgrade the ram in that Thinkpad and Windows would run fine.

[TuanLe-dmfi]

If it doesn't work, you lose time. As you know it, once you lose it you will never get it back. FOREVER GONE.

[elie]

i installed windows 10 on a 10 years old laptop. and it's smooth. it's now plugged to my home speakers and plays music when i start it from my spotify app on my phone.

I also use it to download big files overnight.

[ashleybishton]

Imagine paying for FREE open-source operating system 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[o_o]

Ssd and ram and fresh install software can make every laptop work like charm