Section: Computers, Netbooks, Software / Applications
Black Friday sales, while helpful, can get tired after a while. Sometimes its cool just to try something new with the tech you might already have. Enter Doug A from Dell, who managed to hack together a working version of Chrome OS for the Dell Mini 10v.
Before you get too excited about the prospect of running Chrome OS on your Dell Mini 10v, you should know that the Chrome OS version isn’t exactly the most stable. For one, the wireless is a bit wonky, and is said to take five to ten minutes for the OS to see access points, which is quite long time. There is also the issue of rebooting the netbook. There is no reboot/shutdown menu, so you have to hard shut down by pressing and holding the power button each time. Oh, and the image is really only designed to be put onto a flash drive, so unless you’re brave enough, it’s not meant to replace your current OS.
The fact that people are so quick to jump on top of Chrome OS, and putting it on devices (whether through virtualization, flash drives or built-in SSD) seems to bode well for the OS. The fact that Dell would host an image of an unstable version for one of its netbooks is a good sign that companies might support the OS when it is actually released next year. Sure, it might not work for everyone, but for most of what netbooks are capable of, it is certainly a more than capable OS.
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