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Can you install Windows 7/8 on a Chromebook?
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I'm looking to get a little notebook mainly for work and this one stands out to me the most. I like the fact it's a notebook which is quite small but not small enough. I just have two questions about it that I cannot find the answers to online.
1 - Can I install Windows 7/8 onto this notebook, without having to sacrifice missing drivers?
2 - Is the 16GB SSD removable so I could add say a 120GB SSD?
The reason why I need Windows is because of some of the features it has to offer such as formatting HDDs, being able to connect via Homegroup etc.
Thanks for reading, hope you can help.
Have a nice day
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Even if it's possible to run Windows on this machine, would it run crappy with it being only an Intel Celeron chip inside?
1 - Can I install Windows 7/8 onto this notebook, without having to sacrifice missing drivers?
2 - Is the 16GB SSD removable so I could add say a 120GB SSD?
The reason why I need Windows is because of some of the features it has to offer such as formatting HDDs, being able to connect via Homegroup etc.
Thanks for reading, hope you can help.
Have a nice day
EDIT:
Even if it's possible to run Windows on this machine, would it run crappy with it being only an Intel Celeron chip inside?
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Windows will not work on a chromebook I don't think so m8.
But you can install Ubuntu. It's free and the interface is pretty much the same.
But you can install Ubuntu. It's free and the interface is pretty much the same.
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Ciniti wrote Windows will not work on a chromebook I don't think so m8.
But you can install Ubuntu. It's free and the interface is pretty much the same.
I believe this is true. Trying to install Windows on any computer that is not meant for the Windows OS is way too much work. You'd have to install it then figure out every program you needed for that specific computer for it to even begin to work.
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Most Chromebooks do run at slow clock speeds i believe, would advise just keeping the original software as it has been optimized for that.
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You can't run Windows OS on a Chromebook.
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