If you can spare a few bucks for the cause, John Lewis is accepting donations for the purchase of an Acer C7 and other gear in his Coreboot+SeaBIOS project. He's already come a long way in his quest to "open up" Chromebooks and is certainly deserving of our support. If you'd like to have the option of using your Chromebook as a more all-purpose laptop, he's definitely the horse to bet on in this race!
http://johnlewis.ie/
The language barrier will be a challenge. People are still trying to get Windows 7/8 working with coreboot/SeaBIOS but I'm not one of them. At this point, I think it's unlikely that Windows will ever be fully functional natively on the C710. What you don't know from the YouTube video is that it required an external USB mouse & keyboard to do anything with it. And without working trackpad & keyboard, a laptop is pretty worthless.
ReplyDeleteIf a way can be found to flash the Acer AO756 BIOS on the C7, then Windows support is likely, otherwise, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on it. In my opinion, the C7 is seriously underpowered for Windows 7/8 anyway.
Your best option at the moment is probably running Windows on a virtual machine (like VirtualBox, VMWare, etc.) from Linux, if you really really NEED Windows.
I wish I could be more optimistic here, but people have been trying for a year now, and the C710 is probably about to be discontinued, so ...
I think I understand. Are you using Chrubuntu or Crouton or something else? What kind of errors?
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