[chewz]

I'm using ChromeOS on Macbook Pro Retina 2015 and on Thinkpad x230 as a spare for just everything.

Thinkpad x230 is 10 years old and it's current market price is below $100, I think. Or you can get it for free from a friendly company admin. Except for screen estate (compared to Retina) x230 is everything I need. It still has in it another 5 more years or so.

So ChromeOS could be cheap and performant at the same time. Chromebooks are different story - never found one with price to performance/quality ratio that suits my wallet.

PS. I disagree that ChromeOS has stalled out. Can't wait till February for version 80.

[Kipters]

How does it run on the x230? With which specs? Android and Linux subsystems are working?

[chewz]

Android isn't working on Neverware. Linux (crostini containers) and crosh both work.

x230 is some old i5, 100GB SSD and some RAM. Battery is still OK and getting replacement battery for Thinkpad is no hassle.

It works all right and the keyboard is a dream.

[Kipters]

Damn, the Android side is the thing I'm interested the most (for dev purposes, not as an user)

[phonon]

https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

[Kipters]

Thanks.

Looks like my old MacBook Air (model 6,2) is not supported, but its 11" variant (6,1) is. I'll give it a try when I return home from the holidays.

[chewz]

Don't worry about supported by Neverware. Mine Mac Pro also isn't supported last time I checked. But it works flawlessly.

[Kipters]

I just found it curious that they would officially support the 11" and not the 13"

[TMWNN]

That just means that Neverware tested CloudReady on 11" but not 13". Similarly, the Mac Pro isn't officially supported because Neverware decided, quite rightly, that few people are going to run Chrome OS on a high-end Apple desktop.