Have a old laptop gathering dust? Need a low cost laptop for your kid?
Google’s free tool will breathe new life into your old laptop
Download Free Google Chrome OS Flex: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/chromeos-flex-ready-to-scale-to-pcs-and-macs
Google’s ChromeOS Flex is available to everyone — all you have to do is download the OS to a USB drive, and then install it on your old laptop. It is certified to work on nearly 300 devices.
Google’s ChromeOS Flex video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mv9jGcFVbm8
It's great for surfing the web. You can't run applications like Photoshop or Excel. But if your old laptop is already too slow for those applications, ChromeOS Flex could be a great way to refurbish that old laptop — and keep it out of a landfill as long as possible. You can use Google apps such as Google Chrome, Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc.