Previously this year, Google announced Chrome OS Flex, which is a tool that lets anyone take an old Windows or Mac laptop and give it a new life by installing Chrome OS on it. After launching the OS in early access, the company is already scaling it broadly to more PCs and Macs.

The basics are still the same you can just visit the OS website and make a bootable Chrome OS installation on a USB drive and make sure that your system works properly and you can then fully replace your old computer. As for what’s new with this new broadly. Available version Google says that they have now tested compatibility with over 400 different devices and it was part of the intention of the Early Access program that led Google to gather a ton of user feedback and fix some 600 bugs that were identified over the last few months.
Although anyone can install the OS, Google is positioning this as a tool for businesses or schools to extend the usefulness of older hardware. IT departments will also be able to deploy flex over their networks rather than updating every single computer with a USB drive one by one. The company says that flex devices can be managed using the Chrome Enterprise upgrade that lets departments manage apps and policies across a fleet of computers.
