Chrome OS on old laptop

Mukachaka

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I'm about to install Chrome OS on old Samsung Laptop.
Can I use Samsung Recovery Solution after installing it on laptop ?
 
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As I said, there's no ChromeOS for anything but ChromeBook's. ChromeOS is based on Chromium, and there are several projects made around it to provide ChromeOS-compatible environment for PC.

If your laptop still runs original Windows OS it was delivered with, create recovery media (set of CD/DVD) so you can reinstall it if needed. Most probably, ChromeOS-compatible system will wipe out your hard disk completely (including any recovery partitions).

And talking about performance: Even ChromeOS on a slow PC will be slow. If you weren't able to watch 1080 videos in YouTube under Windows, chances are you won't be able to do that in ChromeOS either.

Mukachaka

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It's due to performance, and sometimes this laptop doesn't work properly whether it's wifi connection or slow boot time.
So I just wanna come up with other solution such as turning this laptop into Chromebook.
The Samsung Recovery Solution is in hard drive ? If I change OS, is the recovery program deleted too ?

I didn't realize Chrome OS isn't officially supported by Google.
Compared to Chrome OS installed in Chromebook, Chrome OS I was about to install on old laptop isn't the same OS ?
 
As I said, there's no ChromeOS for anything but ChromeBook's. ChromeOS is based on Chromium, and there are several projects made around it to provide ChromeOS-compatible environment for PC.

If your laptop still runs original Windows OS it was delivered with, create recovery media (set of CD/DVD) so you can reinstall it if needed. Most probably, ChromeOS-compatible system will wipe out your hard disk completely (including any recovery partitions).

And talking about performance: Even ChromeOS on a slow PC will be slow. If you weren't able to watch 1080 videos in YouTube under Windows, chances are you won't be able to do that in ChromeOS either.
 
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