7/19/2022: Reviving an old MacBook

Turning a MacBook into a Chromebook

Plus: Verizon’s cheaper data plan, a one-minute PC tune-up, and more free music

Jared Newman
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July 19, 2022
A MacBook Pro running ChromeOS Flex

I am writing this newsletter to you from a 13-year-old MacBook Pro, but one that’s no longer running Mac OS X.

Instead, this dusty MacBook is now equipped with ChromeOS Flex, a free operating system from Google that turns old Windows PCs and Macs into Chromebooks. The process was surprisingly easy, and it breathed new life into a laptop that would otherwise be sitting in a junk drawer.

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