What's more portable than a laptop, tablet, or smartphone? Answer: A USB flash drive. We'll show you how to run applications like Firefox, Chrome, OpenOffice, and more, with just your USB flash ...

Soon youou won’t need a dedicated Chrome OS-powered device, like a Chromebook, to run Google’s desktop operating system. Google has announced an early access program called Chrome OS Flex that ...

Now shut down the Mac you want to run Chrome OS Flex on and reinsert the USB drive. Power on the Mac again while holding the Option key. Select the USB drive from the boot menu and hit Enter.

This would allow you to boot a full Linux environment from a USB drive without modifying your Chrome OS system.

Last week we pointed you toward a virtual machine build of Chrome OS for anyone eager to play around with (the still incomplete) Chrome OS, but if you'd rather try running it from a thumb drive ...

Chrome OS 72 also brings an update to the Crostini tool that lets you use a Linux virtual machine to install desktop Linux applications: now those apps can access USB peripherals.

Google’s Chrome OS Flex has officially arrived to rejuvenate old PCs and Macs, by turning them into Chromebooks. Eventually, your Mac or PC will struggle to run after being bogged down with ...

The Asus C200 Chromebook is a $249 laptop with an 11.6 inch display, an Intel Celeron Bay Trail processor, and around 10 hours of battery life. Oh yeah, it also happens to run Google’s browser ...