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Can i use windows on a chromebook?
I bought a chromebook, haven't received it yet. Its an acer 14 inch chromebook with 4gb ram and 32gb hard drive. I also have an internal hard drive that i never ever used... it came with a new laptop but i changed that one with an ssd. Thus this hard drive though its a regular hard drive is not fast, well its 1tb. I also have that enclosure box as well. First off, does that mean i could use my chromebook with my 1tb internat hard drive since i have the enclosure box? Or i cannot do this?
Also i read you could actually use windows on chromebook but you need to download certain program etc. So could i do this on a chromebook if i want in the future? The thing is i know windows takes a good amount of space. But does 32gb mean its enough as long as i connect an external or the internal hard drive with enclosure on it? I know the simple thing is you could have just bought a windows computer but i wanted mainly to use it for streaming and watching videos and web browsing and downloading files. Of course i might have lot of files so i would need some type of usb stick or hard drive for it. But if i wanted to use windows in the future with the chromebook would it work? The thing is its an acer chromebook and the processor is an intel celeron but its quad core entry level so that would be fast enough? But if it was 2gb and say 16gb chromebook, it would not?
Also if i use windows, i have to buy a copy of windows 7 or 10. But how much would that cost? It really wouldn't matter to be much which windows i use etc. Also i assume i could not use a windows copy of an old laptop or desktop that i no longer use right? Thus imagine a laptop with windows that the computer no longer work anymore. I assume i cannot use that code on the back of the laptop on it right? But how much would it cost to download the program on it? Also im curious but could i use linux on chromebook or not? And would it cost money to do this? I heard linux was free a while back.