CloudReady Chome OS clone on an old laptop, WOW! - Chromebooks

I have an old Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop that I bought in 2009.
The CPU has been upgraded to a Core 2 Duo T9600 from its original Pentium T4200. The Ram is upgraded to 4gb from the original 2gb.
I upgraded the hard disk to a 120gb SSD drive.
The Dell 1545 originally came with Windows Vista with a free upgrade to Windows 7. I recently upgraded to Windows 10. Meh. I thought, why not try Chrome OS on the old laptop. So....
I installed CloudReady Chrome OS clone on this old laptop and ran Octane 2.0.
To my surprise, the Octane rating is 17264 with CloudReady installed. Wow!
For comparison, my Dell Chromebox 3010 Celeron 2955U CPU with 8gb ram and a 32gb SSD drive scores an Octane rating of 12450.
So adding CloudReady to an old laptop looks like a really good option. Better than bloated Windows 10.
Link to Chromebook specs & performance comparison chart (Octane ratings - 2016)
http://zipso.net/chromebook-specs-comparison-table/
Link to Neverware CloudReady
https://www.neverware.com/#introtext-3
Link to Octane 2.0 Test Page
https://chromium.github.io/octane/

i have/had (gave it to my gf) an acer one zg5 which i pimped with a 30gb ssd & maxed the ram to 1.5gb (aaargh). it was hopelessly slow with xp, win7, linux mint & ubuntu. i was curious about chrome os so tried arnold the bat's builds, which were fine & got me keen. I moved to cloudready simply because it's os updates work without any fuss.
i love the form of the old eeepc style netbooks and with chrome os i feel they have a new lease of life. long may the devs keep working on ports for our old bangers!

It's great for a school environment. Highly recommend. Support is awesome.

Robo-rooter said:
I have an old Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop that I bought in 2009.
The CPU has been upgraded to a Core 2 Duo T9600 from its original Pentium T4200. The Ram is upgraded to 4gb from the original 2gb.
I upgraded the hard disk to a 120gb SSD drive.
The Dell 1545 originally came with Windows Vista with a free upgrade to Windows 7. I recently upgraded to Windows 10. Meh. I thought, why not try Chrome OS on the old laptop. So....
I installed CloudReady Chrome OS clone on this old laptop and ran Octane 2.0.
To my surprise, the Octane rating is 17264 with CloudReady installed. Wow!
For comparison, my Dell Chromebox 3010 Celeron 2955U CPU with 8gb ram and a 32gb SSD drive scores an Octane rating of 12450.
So adding CloudReady to an old laptop looks like a really good option. Better than bloated Windows 10.
Link to Chromebook specs & performance comparison chart (Octane ratings - 2016)
http://zipso.net/chromebook-specs-comparison-table/
Link to Neverware CloudReady
https://www.neverware.com/#introtext-3
Link to Octane 2.0 Test Page
https://chromium.github.io/octane/
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I've installed on old CompaqPresario CQ58. Very very fast.
The only problem is that it cannot use webcam microphone.
Any idea how to solve it?

spino1970 said:
I've installed on old CompaqPresario CQ58. Very very fast.
The only problem is that it cannot use webcam microphone.
Any idea how to solve it?
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There may be a few glitches in the code. Some of the CloudReady devices have glitches and don't work with certain features.

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Surface Pro 4? Hows it run ?

Does anyone know how well this runs on a sp4 i5? windows 10 in tablet mode is driving me nuts. Remix OS and all the touch optimized android apps it brings would make this into the perfect device for me
Douglerful said:
Does anyone know how well this runs on a sp4 i5? windows 10 in tablet mode is driving me nuts. Remix OS and all the touch optimized android apps it brings would make this into the perfect device for me
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Touchscreen not working
Sad, I was going to buy a surface pro 4 this week...
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Has any progress been made to get Touch-screen working on SP4?
i'm also waiting for touchscreen. any progress?
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AllanJacques said:
Sad, I was going to buy a surface pro 4 this week...
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Buy lenovo yoga 700 same specs way lower price..
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The new remix os beta might be able to support touchscreen, not sure though. Lets wait till its out
Same as everyone above,
I'm running a SUrface Pro 4 i7 256gb 8gb Ram device.
I couldn't get this to boot from anything other than a USB drive, got stuck because of the single USB slot so plugged in a USB port extender and plugged mouse and keyboard to that and that all started working fine. Surface keypad and touch screen functions don,t work. Also the resolution is silly small but aside from that everything else seemed fine. Hoping the beta which rolls out today might address some of this but likely not.
My current challenge is to get remix os to boot from the internal hard-drive or the micro-sd i have plugged in at the back to keep the USB port free.
tfngwena said:
Same as everyone above,
I'm running a SUrface Pro 4 i7 256gb 8gb Ram device.
I couldn't get this to boot from anything other than a USB drive, got stuck because of the single USB slot so plugged in a USB port extender and plugged mouse and keyboard to that and that all started working fine. Surface keypad and touch screen functions don,t work. Also the resolution is silly small but aside from that everything else seemed fine. Hoping the beta which rolls out today might address some of this but likely not.
My current challenge is to get remix os to boot from the internal hard-drive or the micro-sd i have plugged in at the back to keep the USB port free.
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I am sure it would work out soon...
It makes sense to install it on the internal card...difficult to handle a a tablet with an ugly usb drive protruding from it...unlike a desktop pc....XD
freelancer81 said:
I am sure it would work out soon...
It makes sense to install it on the internal card...difficult to handle a a tablet with an ugly usb drive protruding from it...unlike a desktop pc....XD
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exactly! I was just happy to get it working first time round.
Runs incredibly awesome and fast on my surface pro 3. Installed on the ssd. I5 128gb 4gb. 230k antutu. If its any consolation. And on my venue 11. I5 4300y, 4gb 128gb, I actually have it installed on the micro SD. A 128gb 80mbs. Don't know why, but the venue can boot it from the micro SD, not the surface, or my onda dualos v919, or my teclast x98 pro. Weird.
gigahurts said:
Runs incredibly awesome and fast on my surface pro 3. Installed on the ssd. I5 128gb 4gb. 230k antutu. If its any consolation. And on my venue 11. I5 4300y, 4gb 128gb, I actually have it installed on the micro SD. A 128gb 80mbs. Don't know why, but the venue can boot it from the micro SD, not the surface, or my onda dualos v919, or my teclast x98 pro. Weird.
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That's really interesting. To be fair, microsoft only just managed to fix the bag warmer bug on the SP4 so likely some drivers on it might just be to new age.
In other news Remix OS beta is out with suport for installation on an internal drive. I found a post about how to do this manually but glad they have it baked into their install. No gurantee it will work though. Will update here once im done. http://www.jide.com/en/remixos-for-pc
Hopefully the newest beta will actually work. At work at the moment so can't test it with my SP4 yet. Been running AMIDuOS instead but it doesn't have great performance.
gigahurts said:
Runs incredibly awesome and fast on my surface pro 3. Installed on the ssd. I5 128gb 4gb. 230k antutu. If its any consolation. And on my venue 11. I5 4300y, 4gb 128gb, I actually have it installed on the micro SD. A 128gb 80mbs. Don't know why, but the venue can boot it from the micro SD, not the surface, or my onda dualos v919, or my teclast x98 pro. Weird.
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Simple question, how did you install it on your MicroSD card ? I'm having trouble installing it while keeping my second partition, basically I have an Asus T100 with limited SSD storage, so I'm trying to get RemixOS installed on one partition of my MicroSD card for dual boot while keeping my Windows data (files, movies...) on another partition. Any ideas ? I know there's this thing about only the active partition showing up in Windows, so a second partition won't show up in Windows (I have to do it from Linux).
Posting from the SP4 running the beta. Its good keyboard works, managed to boot from the internal partition i setup. No touchscreen support but typecover now works and the touchpad although buggy also works. i would use a usb mouse. Trying to change the resolution now doesnt recognise high res display on surface pro 4. Will post with updates.
I thing RemixOS currently doesn't recognize touchpad buttons, if you don't try to use them (as buttons), it works well, at least for me.
MrEnderkiller said:
Simple question, how did you install it on your MicroSD card ? I'm having trouble installing it while keeping my second partition, basically I have an Asus T100 with limited SSD storage, so I'm trying to get RemixOS installed on one partition of my MicroSD card for dual boot while keeping my Windows data (files, movies...) on another partition. Any ideas ? I know there's this thing about only the active partition showing up in Windows, so a second partition won't show up in Windows (I have to do it from Linux).
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well, when I launched the "now old" alpha usb installer, it allows me to select my sd card, on all the tablets actually, but only the venue actually boots from the sd card... Not sure why, if there's anything I can run, or get more information for you on it, let me know. I actually only got 130k on the alpha on my surface pro 3, sorry about the typo. I installed the beta today, and well, ITS EVEN FRICKIN BETTER, lol. Everything works (except the type cover, lol, and thats the only thing working on the sp4, lol). I mean everything works. Even the windows button works and brings up the remix menu. I'm getting 160k on antutu on the beta. Only problem is, when I'm dual booting and I get the 30 second screen to choose an OS, I can't pick one, unless I have my usb wireless dongle in and my little air mouse/keyboard at the ready, then I can choose with that controller. I guess I could change the default to android, but I use windows 10 x64 too. I had to use windows to root android, with the rmx tools. Anyway, the beta is buttery smooth on the sp3. All apps working except maps, just locks up when I launch it. Audio, bluetooth, wireless 2.4 and 5.0, multitouch, windows haptic button, rotation, battery meter, volume and power buttons, front and back cameras and accelerated graphics all working perfectly. Its totally awesome, this is a super fast android/windows dual OS tablet now!!!
HTML:
Hey all, just put the beta only maindektop and my venue. The desktop get 193k antutu i7 5820k @ 4ghz 16gb ddr4 256 m.2 m600 ssd. The venue gets 103k on the internal ssd, will bench on SD card later. Now installing on surface 3 (non pro cherry trail z8700), onda v919 air dual os (baytrail-t), and teclast x98 pro (cherry trail z8500). Not sure why my desktop and the venue's scores are so low. I haven't rooted and installed kernel auiditor yet though. Oh, and I'll bench the beta on my dell studio 15 7537 touchscreen lappy later too, i7 4500u, 16gb ddr3 256gb msata ssd 1gb geforce 750mand I'll bench it on my chuwi hi8 (cherry trail z8300). I'm like totally benchmark crazy right now, don't have anything better to do though. I could also put it on my lenovo miix 2 8 and my unbranded 10 inch (best buy brand), but I'm not sure what the point would be. I have 3 nexus 7s, 2 -2013s and 1 2012, I could install the arm version on the 2013s to compare with. I've got that lenovo g460 1st gen i5 560m, geforce 310m, 8gb ddr3 I picked up for $37 (most of what I have, I bought broken, and fixed it). I could go on, but I'm probably boring everybody. I'll let you know the results soon.
as far as why the beta works so well with the surface pro 3 and not with the SP4, I have no idea, it has similar hardware.
The surface pro 3 and the venue are running their full resolutions on the remix beta. Battery life is better than windows 10 x64 on both too.
Ill put it on my surface 3 and I have an old surface pro 1 lying around and let you know the results. I buy a lot of broken stuff and fix it. You should see my stack of phones, mostly s4 and s5, but I've got some others too. Seriously gadget ocd, lol. I'm posting on the venue 7130 vpro right now, not as buttery as the surface, but still snappy. Multi touch works, Bluetooth, WiFi 5.0 and 2.4 work, vibration works, windows button works, sound works, volume and power buttons work, battery meter works, maps works too, unlike the sp3. Rotation is about the only thing not working, but does on the sp3.
I was digging amiduos lollipop for a while, but yea, you just don't get the performance of running it natively. Although my desktop was getting way over 200k on antutu with it, but some things can only be run natively due to virtual machine limitations. I think this beta and the phoenix beta blow any virtual android machine away. I've run some marshmallow ones too, they just don't cut it for me.
Well, I went out and picked up another surface pro keyboard. I got the one that is backlit. The box says surface pro type cover. I didn't think it was any different than the one I already have. But...., this one works with remix, and the other doesn't. Anyway, the keyboard does work, but the trackpad doesn't work at all in remix, both work fine in windows. Also, I have maps working on my sp3. I had to go into settings and click on "let maps use full screen" and now its working. So to recap, everything on the surface pro 3 is working pretty much flawlessly with the remix beta. The front and rear cameras are a little laggy, but that's about it, oh, and the trackpad on the type cover isnt working. but bluetooth, wifi 5.0 and 2.4, rotation, vibration, windows button, surface pro stylus, battery meter, resolution, power and volume buttons, 10 point multi-touch and standby are all working very well. I'm not sure about display brightness as I haven't located where I can adjust it. Anybody know?
gigahurts said:
well, when I launched the "now old" alpha usb installer, it allows me to select my sd card, on all the tablets actually, but only the venue actually boots from the sd card... Not sure why, if there's anything I can run, or get more information for you on it, let me know. I actually only got 130k on the alpha on my surface pro 3, sorry about the typo. I installed the beta today, and well, ITS EVEN FRICKIN BETTER, lol. Everything works (except the type cover, lol, and thats the only thing working on the sp4, lol). I mean everything works. Even the windows button works and brings up the remix menu. I'm getting 160k on antutu on the beta. Only problem is, when I'm dual booting and I get the 30 second screen to choose an OS, I can't pick one, unless I have my usb wireless dongle in and my little air mouse/keyboard at the ready, then I can choose with that controller. I guess I could change the default to android, but I use windows 10 x64 too. I had to use windows to root android, with the rmx tools. Anyway, the beta is buttery smooth on the sp3. All apps working except maps, just locks up when I launch it. Audio, bluetooth, wireless 2.4 and 5.0, multitouch, windows haptic button, rotation, battery meter, volume and power buttons, front and back cameras and accelerated graphics all working perfectly. Its totally awesome, this is a super fast android/windows dual OS tablet now!!!
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Thanks for the answer !
After some trials and research, I have found out that there's no way to boot from external sd card from my tablet (BIOS doesn't load it up before Windows boot). I could install RemixOS on my tablet's hard drive, but I won't be able to detach my keyboard which contains the HDD then. I have also tried the method that involves using grub2win, but for the same reasons at boot my grub2win installation isn't detected. I might try with putting it on my integrated SSD, and telling it to then look for RemixOS on my microSD when I have time, but for now it's a nope apparently.
I'll still try live booting the beta though, looks awesome !

Remix OS on Old 32bit PCs in Preschool

Hi,
I run a small preschool and we currently have 2 laptops (Thinkpad t43, Compaq nx6320) and 2 small desktops (Shuttle atom 1.6ghz 32bit can't find the model number. They have 2 com ports on the front)
They are acting as thin clients via LTSP from an Edubuntu server in the office.
I would really like to get Remix OS working on them so that the children can use the plethora of educational Android apps on the market as opposed to online flash games and Gcompris. I can then also use a different operating system in the office.
I tried making a bootable USB using the 32bit ISO but it just says "missing operating system" when I try to boot. I even tried using Unetbootin just for laughs but no joy.
Do you think it will be possible to install it? If so, how?
Do you think it would work better to remove all the hard drives and install the OS on them from my main PC?
Any help would be received gratefully.
ChipJapan said:
Hi,
I run a small preschool and we currently have 2 laptops (Thinkpad t43, Compaq nx6320) and 2 small desktops (Shuttle atom 1.6ghz 32bit can't find the model number. They have 2 com ports on the front)
They are acting as thin clients via LTSP from an Edubuntu server in the office.
I would really like to get Remix OS working on them so that the children can use the plethora of educational Android apps on the market as opposed to online flash games and Gcompris. I can then also use a different operating system in the office.
I tried making a bootable USB using the 32bit ISO but it just says "missing operating system" when I try to boot. I even tried using Unetbootin just for laughs but no joy.
Do you think it will be possible to install it? If so, how?
Do you think it would work better to remove all the hard drives and install the OS on them from my main PC?
Any help would be received gratefully.
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I tried to install Remix OS 32 Bit to a Thinkpad T40, Thinkpad T42, Thinkpad T43, Thinkpad R51 and Thinkpad T400.
The only notebook where I was successful was the T400 - and the T400 works with the 64 Bit version, too.
I suspect that Remix OS 32 Bit has problems with graphic cards of computers which are more than 10 years old.
remixtester said:
I tried to install Remix OS 32 Bit to a Thinkpad T40, Thinkpad T42, Thinkpad T43, Thinkpad R51 and Thinkpad T400.
The only notebook where I was successful was the T400 - and the T400 works with the 64 Bit version, too.
I suspect that Remix OS 32 Bit has problems with graphic cards of computers which are more than 10 years old.
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I've found that if I add NOMODESET at boot they pretty much all work but really choppy and slow. Is this a good sign? Does it mean that it just needs display driver tweaking or is it a huge job?

chromebook choice

Reading so much things about Chromebook that I want now test by myself but which one should i buy...Acer R11, Asus flip, HP 14 ...lenovo ?
I'm loosing my mind... Could you help me to choice referring your experiences
Thanks
Asus Chromebook Flip because it has support for Android apps from Google Play Store.
older refurbs can work well
This might not be the direction you wanrt to go, but I liked the acer c720 (refurb).
Successfully ran crouton (trusty( on it (more like "briskly walked" crouton on it).
The version I had could not be reasonably upgraded from 2 GB of RAM.
I found a page about upgrading acer chromebooks, you can find it by searching for "How to upgrade the Acer C7 Chromebook" (i.r. noob, thus no link)
I then found an older c710-2834 (higher clock on previous-gen celeron), swapped in an SSD and added RAM to the spare slot.
I ended up with an ultraportable with 10 GB DDR3 and a 240 GB hard drive that actually runs crouton (occasionally even sprinting), at a very low cost.
The caveat is that the slightly more power-hungry processor along with upgrades trade off some of the battery life that the c720 had.
Whichever way you go, I hope it works out well for you.
Thanks for your answer... Asus chromebook flip is not available in France.... Only amazon us but no azerty keyboard... So the last one Chromebook out in France is Acer r11 with better CPU and same versatility.... Tablet mode, PC mode and one another.... It cost 299€
I don't know if chrome os will be fine for me but I'm searching for something different....I also saw that chrome os could be installed also under a raspberry pi 3.... So may be I could try this os under this device before buying one real Chromebook....
The new way to run android apps in native is interesting
Mchasard said:
Reading so much things about Chromebook that I want now test by myself but which one should i buy...Acer R11, Asus flip, HP 14 ...lenovo ?
I'm loosing my mind... Could you help me to choice referring your experiences
Thanks
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If you have an old laptop sitting around, load CloudReady Chromebook clone software on it. I have a Dell 3010 Chromebox and I have CloudReady loaded on an old Dell 1545 laptop. CloudReady is nearly identical to a Chromebook. At least you can get the feel of a Chromebook before buying one.
CloudReady by Neverware. Free for individual use.
http://www.neverware.com/#introtext-3
http://www.neverware.com/freedownload/
The HP Chromebook 11A is a good choice. It has got a great design and a powerful mediatek processor.
Yeah even I was reading about this Chromebook today. Great choice for budget users tbh. If you're still looking for a good chromebook, I'd also suggest the Lenovo Duet Chromebook. Both have fab mediatek chipsets and are under Rs. 26K. The Acer Spin 311 is good too.

[Q] Android OS for desktop PC.

Hello all,
first of i want to thank you all for the great work, XDA was and is my biggest source of Android information.
Now for my request. But first some background info.
Recently my company has put up for sale some old hardware from which i have chose an HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF (price 30 euro) with the following specs:
-Intel i5-3570 3,40GHz (4 cores)
-4GB DDR3
-no HDD but either i will use an USB 3.0 32gb drive or buy a small HDD or SSD
-there is no graphic card but it has an integrated Intel HD 2500 with HDMI port.
At home i have an old 46in Panasonic Smart TV wich is too old for current technology but is still Full HD 30 fps and its SLiM (considering its age).
Considering this i took this opportunity to get an desktop PC to ad it to the TV (already have a hidden space under the TV table so it does not show.
Now you might be asking why i haven't opted for a Chromecast or something similar. Reason is i trust more PC hardware and i am more familiar with it also i can add and remove hardware for upgrade as i please.
My request is if you can suggest me an Android OS to install onto it.
I plan to use it for mostly Netflix and YouTube and some controller specific games like Asphalt 9 or some older/emulated games.
The PC specs are good for the almost free price, i am also familiar with the PC since i worked on same model for some years so the performance is right.
The reason of why i want Android is that unfortunately i have no cable internet so i am limited to data, fortunately i have data plan with free YouTube/Netflix
Thank you for listening to my ramblings.
Kind regards,
Redbloodedrose.

Cheap PC choice

Hello,
When looking for a cheap PC or laptop that can run Windows 10 and 11 properly.
Which Benchmarks to watch first? What score must he have at least?
I often hear that you need a passmark of 3000 minimum
Thanks
A used Dell laptop... try this guy.
jkbee26 said:
Hello,
When looking for a cheap PC or laptop that can run Windows 10 and 11 properly.
Which Benchmarks to watch first? What score must he have at least?
I often hear that you need a passmark of 3000 minimum
Thanks
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I'm running Windows 11 on a Surface Pro 6 and a 1st Gen Surface Laptop. The latter is a 4GB i5 machine and Windows 11 runs choppy.
My daughter ages wife each have Surface Laptop Go 8GB 256GB i5. The Surface Laptop Go is around $700 and Windows 11 runs pretty good on it.
Try Asus VivoBook.
I have one and Windows 11 runs pretty smoothly.

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