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Introduction |
The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook_Pixel|original Chromebook Pixel], a high-powered Chromebook released in 2013, [https://www.androidauthority.com/chromebook-pixel-2013-end-of-life-899370/|stopped receiving updates from Google in August 2018]. While the laptop still functions (and pretty well, considering how overpowered it was even for 2013), it no longer receives the newest features of Chrome OS updates, nor the importantincluding security updates issued for the OS and it Chrome browserfixes. Plus, Google will keep reminding you with a little red notification that it has abandoned its promising early progenyit. | | This guide will help you get theyour Pixel modernized once more, with security updates and OS improvements. Best of all, hardly anything will change about the interface or system. We will install [https://www.neverware.com/freedownload|CloudReady Home Edition]. CloudReady, from Neverware, is meant to give older laptops and desktops a new life with a lightly modified version of [https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os|Chromium OS], the open-source root of the Chrome OS companies put on Chromebooks. | | The Chromebook Pixel isn’t listed on CloudReady’s list of officially supported devices, but given that it’s a Chromebook, it works entirely fine. I’ve used for four months as of this guide writing, and everything98% is functioning: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, touchpad, touchscreen and display, even the Linux system built into newer Chromebooks. There’s a strange sound occasionally when you boot up, but that’s about it. You won’t get Android apps, but then Google never tried to makeput them work on the Pixel, either. | | | '''Important:''' You will have to [guide|86362|remove the Pixel’s write-protect screw] and change the laptop’s BIOS as a prerequisite to installing CloudReady. Luckily, the Pixel is an easy laptop to open up and get inside. Since you’re already opening it up, consider [guide|86369|a battery replacement] if your Pixel can barely live off the charger after 6 years. |
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