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Xi3 Chromium PC Will Be World First Desktop To Run Chrome OS
- wccrawford 15y agoSite's down and I can't find a mirror or cached copy. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/xi3-chromiumpc-first-desktop-pc-to-run-google-chrome-os-due-in-july/5879 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/xi3-chromiumpc-first-des... is another article.
- evangineer 15y agoThe site worked fine for me just now.
- evangineer 15y agoIt's not clear to me, why you would need to swap boards in order to run another OS on the ChromiumPC.
- wccrawford 15y agoThat is pretty weird, yeah. At a guess, I'd say it has the OS as firmware to make the bootup really fast, and you'd be replacing that firmware board with a BIOS board.
- trotsky 15y agoChromeOS netbooks include an actual ROM (not eeprom) that starts a boot chain that cryptographically evaluates each next step for signed google code. It does have a dev mode feature where unsigned code can be run, but it makes it a slow and somewhat annoying boot so that the user understands they aren't running a blessed chromeOS. If you really wanted to run something other than chromeOS all the time, you'd likely not want that feature.
- evangineer 15y agoHmm, so like some recent Android devices from HTC & Motorola, ChromeOS devices use a signed bootloader. Got it.