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In this video, we take a look at Neverware's CloudReady software, a custom build of Chromium OS that feels and behaves very, very similar to the Chrome OS we see on officially licensed devices.
Neverware's approach is unique in that they have a huge list of devices that are supported, the service is free for individual users, and the entire OS can run quite well from a USB drive.
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hey folks Robbie pay with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with a quick guide
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on how to install Chrome or rather a
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specific version of chromium built by
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neverware on your aging PC laptop
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notbook or MacBook device we'll talk
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briefly about what cloud ready is who
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neverware is and what their aim is with
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this software and then we'll give you a
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pretty brief how- to and get you go in
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on your device of
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choice
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so what is cloud ready it's actually a
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specific build of chromium OS and
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chromium OS is the open source version
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of Chrome OS that anybody can use for
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whatever they want to use it for it is a
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specific build of chromium OS by
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neverware designed for school systems
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that need some admin functionality and
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need to replace aging old outdated and
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slow PCS Andor Macs and so the idea here
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is you can deploy cloud ready onto a ton
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of machines have some admin capability
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from an IT standpoint and just pay a
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license fee for this software uh to
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neverware each and every year and
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quickly turn your uh almost extinct line
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of devices into something that actually
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works is nice and fast and we're going
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to talk about how that kind of works uh
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but I wanted to give you all some ideas
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to what they do um and and as part of
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this initiative they actually offer it
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for free to people who to use it on a
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single use case basis now you won't get
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any of the Google admin console stuff
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going on here because it's not really
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meant for that and honestly if you're
1:38
using in your house you don't need that
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anyway and so this could be a great
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replacement for your aging PC um or an
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aging MacBook that you may not be able
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to get even any money out of um you may
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be able to install cloud ready onto it
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and actually kind of Bring It Back to
1:52
Life which is really neat um it's
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specifically what I've done with this PC
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here that's uh quite a few years old um
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it's got a core
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i5 8 gigs of RAM so it's it's a decent
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device but uh it's a second gen Core i5
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so it's an older processor and it was
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really starting to struggle with Windows
2:10
in general so I decided you know what
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I'm going to give this a try we'll make
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a video about it and as you can see I've
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already actually got Chrome OS or
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chromium OS um cloud ready specifically
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already running on this device here um
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and what we're going to do is reinstall
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it cuz one of the caveats of this is and
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there are very few um honestly it feels
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exactly like Chrome OS but one of them
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is there's no power wash feature so you
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actually have to uh reinstall which is
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beneficial cuz I can actually go through
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the whole process and show you and the
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fun part about this little tutorial is
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I'm actually going to set up the entire
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process from a cloud ready PC so we're
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going to take a cloud ready PC and
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basically remake another cloud ready PC
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as we show you the steps on how to go
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through and do this on your own device
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now there's a link below that tells uh
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exactly what devices are supported
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because they support quite a few I want
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to say it's a few hundred devices at
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this point right now and the list
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continues to grow if your device is not
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on here go ahead and try it because as
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you'll see here in a few minutes the USB
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part whenever we first set this up you
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actually can run this entire thing off
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of a USB stick and so as long as you
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have all the things together to get this
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thing going you can actually try it
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first if you like it and you're like hey
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I want to ditch Windows which is what I
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did with this device here you can go
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ahead and move forward with that but if
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you want to run it off a USB to try out
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and and decide that you don't want to
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you're completely fine to do that as
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well so let's dive in and talk first
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about the things that you're going to
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need in order to get this uh install up
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and running first a computer from the
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list there's a link down below you can
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check to see if your devices on that
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list if not I would say go ahead and
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give it a try still you need a USB stick
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8 or 16 gigs we're going to download so
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you will need the Chromebook recovery
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utility it is in the Chrome web store
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and then you're just going to need some
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time and a little bit of patience it
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doesn't take a ton of time uh but it
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does take a few minutes so at this point
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Let's Pretend This is any regular
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Chromebook or PC or Macbook so I'm going
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to take you through instructions that
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would work on anything granted again
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this is basically Chrome OS running um
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cuz I thought it would be kind of neat
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for you get to see a little bit of what
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cloud ready looks like actually in
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action and as I said before it looks
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identical to Chrome OS so the first
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thing we're going to do is we're
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actually going to get get cloud ready
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and so if you go to
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www.ar.com slf freeownload or if you
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just search neverware or search cloud
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ready you're going to find this anyway
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once you get here for most folks a
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64-bit is going to be what you want to
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go with um if you do have old old
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computer pennium 4 and before like the
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core Duo there's some MacBooks on the
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list that have that processor or if it's
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an Atom Processor so if it's a 32-bit
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processor you need to get 32-bit um I'm
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hoping at this point if you're jumping
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into this that um you'll be able to
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identify those things on your computer
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mine is
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64 um so you click this and the download
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is going to start because it's a pretty
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large file it's 590 Megs um I went ahead
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and just downloaded it before this so
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that we can move forward a little
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quicker Next Step we're going to go to
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the web store so if we just type in
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Chrome web
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store some people have it up here in
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their bookmarks um I'm on Chrome OS so
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it would be down here as well um but
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again we're trying to treat this as if
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we are going from any operating system
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Chrome web store we need now the
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recovery utility so we're just going to
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type in Chrome
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recovery
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utility first one it's going to ask if
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you want to add it yes of course you
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want to add it that's the whole reason
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we looked for
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it and it is added from there we're
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going to click
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recovery instead of going through the
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get started process we're actually going
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to click the gear so that we can use a
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local image which is the image that we
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just downloaded so we want to use that
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click that click open it's going to ask
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you to select the media I've already put
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my USB stick here so you would put it
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into your USB at that point if you
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haven't already choose it and this is
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asking if it's the correct media I think
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it's a little bit large it's 128 gigs
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and so it's not sure what to do with
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that create recovery image I'm not going
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to click create now because that disc
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has actually already got this written Um
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this can take anywhere between 15 and 30
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minutes depending on how fast your
6:37
machine is I believe with this one I
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want to say it took about 10 to 12
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minutes um so it was relatively quick
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now if you have a really old machine it
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could take a little bit longer so uh
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just prepare yourself you'll watch the
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progress bar go when it's done it'll say
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hey I'm done uh you can eject me and so
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we're just going to exit out at that
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point and then depending on
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on where you have installed this if
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you've done this on your PC leave the
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USB stick in there uh we're going to
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shut down and you're going to restart
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and boot from the USB and we'll see how
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this
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works now it does take a little bit of
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time to write uh or to to write when if
7:15
you decide to move forward we're going
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to talk about that in just a second with
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the full install but uh apart from that
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as long as you've got your computer set
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to boot from USB first um it's it it'll
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boot right up no problem so what we're
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going to do is go and power down
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all right guys after a few minutes you
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should be booted up into what looks like
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Chrome OS the welcome screen other than
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the fact that instead of the splash
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screen saying uh Chrome OS it says cloud
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ready the whole intro and set of process
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should feel very familiar it's the exact
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same process so I went ahead and got
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through all that kind of stuff uh and
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got into
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um into the setup running on this HP and
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so this is running actually from the uh
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the USB slot and we're going to look at
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how quickly it runs really quick uh in
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just a second a real quick note um if if
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you put the USB stick in and went to
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boot and it just booted back into
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Windows um you probably need to do some
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research on the device you have there's
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lots of different ways uh to get into
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your bios but you need to go into the
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BIOS and tell it to look for the USB
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first instead of booting from your hard
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drive and so uh there's a lot of
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information there's no way I can cover
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all of it uh now but uh tons of
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information on Google if you were to go
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out and Google and figure out how to get
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into your bios set that boot to USB
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first and basically all that's doing is
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telling your computer look here first if
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you don't see anything go ahead and boot
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up from the hard drive but uh you can
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tell it had to boot from USB and you can
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look up you know model number of your
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computer boot from USB drive click enter
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find an article uh and set that bio
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stuff up and then this should you should
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get to this point with some relative
8:55
ease um I'll show you a couple things
8:58
real quick again as you can see the
8:59
entire interface looks exactly the same
9:01
file browser um all that kind of stuff
9:03
your settings menu all the same um the
9:07
only thing you'll see different is right
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now this is on uh Chrome 50 and so uh
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stable is on 51 so it's a it's about a
9:14
version behind so you're probably going
9:16
to run behind cuz obviously neverware
9:17
has to take uh chromium OS as it comes
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out and make sure it works with all
9:22
their stuff before they push out their
9:23
own
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updates I'm going to show you something
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real
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quick
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because as I started moving around this
9:32
device uh now with Chrome on it like I
9:34
said it was insanely sluggy with uh with
9:36
with Windows it was it was sluggish it
9:38
was uh slow it didn't perform very well
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and once I got this on here everything
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seems to move really really quickly so
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I'm not going to go away from this while
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it's doing its thing CU I want to give
9:49
it its best shot to to Really perform uh
9:52
but I can tell you while it's running um
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I really wanted to try to push it cuz it
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it kept just kind of chewing up
9:57
everything I was throwing at it so I had
9:59
7even 1080p videos running from YouTube
10:02
I had the Verge and Gadget Android
10:04
Central all open I opened pixel the full
10:08
version of Pixel the pixel Express I had
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Hangouts open uh Google keep open I had
10:14
shift edit my IDE running with a couple
10:17
uh PHP and CSS files open and the thing
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just didn't have a problem 248 I got
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269 uh the other day so that's putting
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it up there octane score-wise with my
10:28
pixel LS and so that tells you here we
10:30
have a four or fivey old uh and and
10:33
granted it wasn't brand new probably
10:35
four or five years ago when I bought it
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it was it was a a bargain basically um
10:40
device over here that had gotten to the
10:42
point where running Windows on it wasn't
10:43
even practical and now we have Chrome OS
10:45
on here and this thing absolutely flies
10:47
no problem uh it's quick it's Speedy
10:50
it's gorgeous and it runs really really
10:52
well um and so congrats to uh the guys
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that never wear guys and gals um cloud
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ready is is legit it works it's awesome
11:02
and I hope this guide has helped you uh
11:04
figure out how to get this installed on
11:05
your device if you have any questions uh
11:07
hopefully we can help you feel those to
11:09
an extent obviously we're not tech
11:10
support and um the the forums at
11:13
neverware are really good you I found
11:15
every answer to every question I've had
11:16
so far in their forums uh this is a
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great service and it's free so if you
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have an old computer lying around and
11:23
want to take on a little experiment this
11:25
isn't a huge deal um jump in uh follow
11:28
the instructions try it like I said it's
11:30
it's no harm no foul if you don't like
11:32
it you turn this thing off yank the USB
11:34
stick out you're back to Windows if you
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do decide that you uh uh want to keep it
11:40
um over here in your settings since I'm
11:42
running from USB now it says install
11:43
cloud ready and I will tell you the
11:45
partition on your USB is actually pretty
11:47
small um so you don't have a lot of room
11:49
to work with
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technically um and there may be some
11:52
ways around that I didn't spend the time
11:53
to look that up I may be able to
11:55
partition this entire uh USB drive and
11:58
run it off there if if so it runs so
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fast off USB it didn't bother me at all
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and these are USB 2.0 ports these aren't
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even usb3 ports on here so it even has
12:07
room to actually speed up the operations
12:10
but if you decide you know what I don't
12:11
want windows on here anymore I want to
12:13
take full advantage of my installed hard
12:14
drive I don't want to boot from USB all
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that stuff you just click install cloud
12:17
ready and give yourself some time it's
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going to take a little bit of time to do
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what it needs to do um and there's two
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options so I'm going to click install
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cloud ready and before we get started um
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yeah it's telling you you're going to
12:29
lose everything if your UEFI if you
12:32
don't know what this is um I would say
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that you probably don't have a device
12:36
like that um I had to do some research
12:38
on it and I honestly couldn't tell you
12:40
what it is right now I tried that on
12:42
this device I tried to do do a dual boot
12:44
so I could kind of have both at the same
12:46
time and it failed pretty miserably um
12:49
but I got cloud ready backup and running
12:50
off the USB stick and just did install
12:52
Standalone cloud ready wiped out windows
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I have full uh access to my hard drive
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when I'm not booted from the USB here
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and it runs uh a little bit faster but
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not much really um so a couple different
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options there but uh hope some of you
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guys try this and I hope it works out
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well for you and I hope that maybe it
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can bring some life back to some aging
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uh devices that you weren't sure exactly
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what you were going to do with guys
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