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I do understand. The computer I described absolutely does NOT have SSD like my Chromebox and Chromebook do. It has a 1 terabyte spinning hard drive - a Hitachi HDS72101. In other words, a HDD. Sounds like you are the one who doesn’t understand. Try Googling it. Wait, sorry, maybe you better Bing it.

It’s a hp with a Dual core Pentium E6800 processor and 4 GB of RAM and a HDD running Windows 7. Certainly not high end, but it didn’t run too bad when brand new after I uninstalled all the crapware on it, replaced most of the core Microsoft applications with better ones, and stopped some of the autostart stuff. No

So, here’s the method:

Turn on Chromebook. Open a new Chrome window. Ctrl+Shift+T to open a Terminal, which opens as a tab in Chrome. Type the following: shell [return] sudo startunity [return]. This boots your Chromebook to Linux, in this case a Unity shell I have installed. From there you just launch Minecraft like

Because I have a playstation for gaming, and this can handle 98% of the computing I need done from home?

Damnit, I’ve been craving a new gadget and have managed to quell that feeling until I read this article. I love my Chromebook, but this one seems superior in every way. The Core i3 version running Linux would be a nice little productivity machine.