Well, now I've gone and done it. I've had my little 4 gig Asus laptop for years now running Windows 10. I take it on all of my travels and I've written many posts and uploaded a ton of photos with it. I also use it for banking and other stuff.

The problem is it's running an old unsecured version of Win 10, because the updates always fail. So today I decided to turn it into a Chrome book. I saved all important stuff, created a bootable Chrome OS Flex boot USB stick, and installed Chrome.

Man I forgot how non-multitasking Chrome is, but it looks good and it's fun. For anybody with and old laptop laying around running Windows, that they don't use because it's crappy, I highly recommend this option.

I can read my mail, sync with my phone for text messaging, watch Netflix and Youtube, access the web, a whole bunch of apps and it's even got OK Google!

For me though, I've run into a serious issue. It does something to secure passwords and I can't do online banking with it. It's a beta version that will continue to automatically update, so we'll see it that gets fixed.

It's also free!

Update: When I first wrote this I couldn't post to my blog, but I fixed that! This update was performed on my new OS :-) It's also a better multi-tasker than I thought!