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Abstract: This article discuss several approaches to install an Official Chrome OS on a non-chrome device by installing and modifying a Chromium OS installation with an Intel CPU. The main goal is to transform a ChromiumOS distribution into an Official Chrome OS distribution so it can run on a non-chrome device. The most obvious benefit of running an Official Chrome OS is that it supports Google Play.

Crucial steps

Before you do anything else you've to check the compability of the machine that you want to install an Official Chrome OS into. Google your CPU model and find out the codename for your specific CPU microarchitecture, e.g. many Intel laptops from 2015 make use of a CPU with a Broadwell architecture and many laptops from 2016-2017 make use of the Skylake architecture. But you need to know what architecture your specific machine have.

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