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   Anonymous
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   See http://www.neverware.com

   I followed their recipe and made a self-starting USB-stick. At the moment I am running chromebook on an old Acer Aspire 5520 W10 64 Pro laptop. I can access all files on both the SSD and the old hard drive (now in the drawer where the DVD-player used to be). So I can use it to save important files from a non-starting Windows machine.
   As I have logged in under the same Gmail-account I use on my real chromebook, I have all my mail, bookmarks and add-ins at my disposal. Only the timezone was wrong because I was in Los Angeles virtually. Now I am back in Amsterdam.

   I tried it on a desktop first and suddenly the mouse became very slow. So the emulator is not yet perfect. I have to find out if this version will be updated automatically like chromebook itself. I now have Version 44.0.2403.157, Platform 44.1.9.

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   See my earlier post/thread under Chromebook For VM Or Old Notebook for directions on turning the .bin file you download into a .vdi that'll run as-is in VBox.

   [That's not a dig or complaint BTW -- just me being too lazy to copy paste the info into this reply :)]

   Google's somehow going to fold Chromium into Android -- the obvious answer, kill it off & expand Android to more devices, would hurt sales of Chromebooks, which Google says is brisk. Hence when the news came out [in the WSJ] it was quickly followed by pseudo denials from Google. Whatever happens, eventually [2017?] Chromebooks will get Android apps -- assuming they're called Chromebooks.

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   Anonymous
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   I tried my stick on several older and newer machines today to find if they are capable to run Neverware:
   1) My Acer V5-122P with 6GB RAM is too well protected and will not run it;
   2) My newest Medion Akoya MD99471, 2 GB RAM, W10 32 Home original (i.e. no upgrade)will not run it: "Secure Boot - Image failed to verify with "*ACCESS DENIED*";
   3) My Medion Akoya MD 1108 (six years old???) with 1 GB ran it as it should, but nearly all the RAM was in use;
   4) The old Dell desktops at the Church computer club ran it well, but slow: they have only 512 MB RAM.
   5) My Asus Eee PC 1000H with 2 GB RAM runs fine. It uses about 1.2 GB RAM (53%)

   My conclusion: you need at least 1 GB to run it, but 2 is better. My real chromebook has 4 GB RAM and likes to use it all.

   Posted 8 years ago #

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