EVO - lution

or somesuch

Heroically or stupidly
The old last college try took place this AM
After all the ups and downs and swearing and angst
and 4 plus hours
I fitted the USB stick into the baby laptop
booted in safe mode 
and before I could really do anything
the ' cloudready ' logo appeared
Cloudready is the program that can introduce
a new operating system into your device

For the next 20 minutes , ' cloudready ' is installing Chrome OS as the platform that runs the baby laptop.

If all goes well , the baby laptop will start up only w/ cloudready and Chrome OS

the downside is that the baby laptop will be subject to the whims and vagaries of cloudready , Chrome and Google.
To wit , the search engine will be Google only
Only w/ difficulty and luck will another search engine load or function

the upside ( s ) is / are that this blog is g mail based , our email accounts are all g mail and the word processor we use in now Google
However , all files are lost during the wiping
But I have a current back up for all personal files that were on baby laptop

' one small step for me and one giant leap for baby laptop '
I paraphrased and shamelessly borrowed from NASA

Weather is damp looking and cool

Eleven AM , a Report on Chrome OS

And success , sort of
Where are we
The baby laptop is Chrome OS ( totally dependent on Google )

Does it load faster ?
Really , instead of 1 1/2 min , we are looking at 30 seconds
slightly more work signing in

Is g mail faster ?
One of the factors in switching was a slow load for g mail
and g mail is barely faster

Oh , well , worth a shot b/c the baby laptop was too slow , overall
we'll give it a month for proper evaluation

Facebook loaded , alright

Four PM update
I've managed to add features. And right off , I can tell that this stripped down version of the laptop does many functions much better and faster