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Re:Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’r... by clashandcarry on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:25PM (#37384644)
For some with Intel or AMD X86 chips, Mr. Chromebox offers a BIOS that will allow another OS to be installed. I got a few more years out of Acer Chrombook with this BIOS and an 2.5" SSD upgrade.

https://mrchromebox.tech/#home

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Re:Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’r... by shams93 on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:29PM (#37384690)
This is a good point, actually I think schools should buy the leftover devices and then run linux on them so kids can be learning things like django at school.
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Re:Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’r... by paulryanrogers on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:33PM (#37384744)
Kids have a lot of other important things to learn first. But perhaps for some high school elective.

One can run ChromeOS on old, used devices. They won't have quite the same security, but are a lot better than nothing.

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Re:Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’r... by rcarmo on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:29AM (#37389225)
I’m still using one of those as an electronics workbench machine.
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