Chromebook laptop

[Rottie]

I think last year or two when my MacBook pro was stolen and I can't live without a laptop so I was forced to buy cheap Chromebook laptop so I could work on my professional video editing for YouTube channel so I bought Acer Chromebook 15 only to find there is no professional video editing app. I decided to keep it just to check email, Facebook and Twitter.
Now I finally got a new MacBook Pro and I wondered what should I do with Chromebook?
What do you do with Chromebook? I am curious.

 

[damian101]

You install a proper operating system on it.
If possible. As far as I know Chromebooks have small specialized firmware that can only start the ChromeOS bootloader, so you need to flash custom firmware to be able to load other operating systems. Chromebooks normally have some hardware write protection for the firmware which needs to be disabled before you can flash proper UEFI firmware on it, which will then allow you to install any UEFI-compatible x86 operating system you want, including various GNU/Linux distributions, Windows, Android-x86, ...

 

[damian101]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices/Custom_firmware#Flashing_the_custom_firmware

 

[Macandme]

you could use if for leisure like watching videos on net?

 

[fire400]

Chromebooks are really disposable laptops in terms of price + performance, pretty much, considering how limited they are on hardware, EOL, and mostly, very entry level hardware (Celeron, Pentium, low-end i3u/i5u CPU's).
Excellent battery life, though, for the fairly inexpensive price of most Chromebooks.
Believe it or not, they have EOL expectancy from Google and the original hardware manufacturer/vendors must acknowledge that for default loaded Chrome OS.

OS to consider: Windows if it can handle it, or Linux.

Reason why to keep a backup laptop on default Chrome OS, because it requires much lower maintenance compared to Windows or Linux.
CTRL+Shift+R to fully wipe and reset a computer in seconds, is truly legendary.