Monday, January 3, 2011

Turn your Cr-48 into a regular PC

Hexxeh has a nice tutorial describing how to turn your Cr-48 into a regular PC with a normal BIOS so that you can boot Windows 7, Ubuntu, even Mac OS X from USB and install like you normally would on a laptop. Unfortunately, the process does require you to crack open your Cr-48 case which will probably void whatever warranty your unit has from Google. If you're brave, technically fit and curious go ahead and give it a shot and let us know the results in the comments. I'm holding off on this one for now because I don't feel like cracking open my Cr-48 and I really am starting to like Chrome OS, while I miss local apps, the speed at which I can pop onto the web and simplicity are fair trade-offs.

Your princess is in another castle…

10 comments:

  1. I'm waiting to boot Android. How about it, Google?

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  2. where would the tutorial be to change the bios now that i have ubuntu on my cr-48?

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  3. niceee.. thx for teh heads up on this

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  4. thanks works great nevermind my earlier comment i got it :)

    i now put ubuntu 10.10 back on my cr-48 and its working perfect

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  5. Works Great! The touted chrome OS speed isn't such a huge thing for me. Ubuntu takes 3-4 seconds to wake up from sleep, chrome OS takes 1. Now that I have bluetooth and the ability to load whatever distro of linux/windows i want the flexibility is worth it.

    It's very very easy to do, people online make it sound daunting but it's really not if you've ever taken apart a laptop before.

    I look forward to google updating chrome OS and fixing things like the trackpad (which can be fixed via software, ubuntu showed me that) and when adobe flash gets updated to run 480p without lagging.

    Great blog BTW!

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  6. yah i feel the same way joe , is there any site that says when the cr-48 is being updated ? ill go back and try it out again when they update it and fix some of the problems.

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  7. does anyone know how to fake a f11 and f12 keypress in ubuntu and set it to something like ctrl + shift + f9 = f11 and ctrl + shift + f10 = f12 is this even possible ? if it is it would really help as the cr-48 has no f11 and f12 keys ?

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  8. Why should you rebuild the cr-48???? Give it to me if you don't like it. I want to test the google netbook... and not for putting windows on it :S

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  9. Ive installed 11.04 but no drivers can be found in additional programs appliction. Is there anyway you can package your drivers. my wifi doesnt work properly and some screen glitches.

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