{"id":44029,"date":"2022-08-04T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=44029"},"modified":"2022-08-04T15:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:44:29","slug":"home-computer-use-can-a-chromebook-host-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-can-a-chromebook-host-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Home computer use: can a Chromebook host Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about current computers: the tutor looks into the idea of Windows on a Chromebook.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI was looking at computer deals online, and noticed that several Windows laptops actually were listed as having <em>Computer type<\/em> being <em>Chromebook<\/em>. I&#8217;d thought that Chromebook means it comes with the Chrome OS, not Windows: I was surprised.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt turns out that there is software by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parallels.com\/ca\/tips\/chromebook-vs-laptop\/get-windows\/#:~:text=Parallels%20Desktop%20for%20Chromebook%20Enterprise,run%20Windows%20on%20your%20Chromebook.\">Parallels<\/a> that can enable using Windows on a Chromebook.<\/p>\n<p>\nIs that what was done with these Windows laptops I&#8217;m seeing listed as <em>Computer Type: Chromebook<\/em>? I&#8217;m not sure, but they do seem to have the system requirements.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about current computers: the tutor looks into the idea of Windows on a Chromebook. I was looking at computer deals online, and noticed that several Windows laptops actually were listed as having Computer type being Chromebook. I&#8217;d thought that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-can-a-chromebook-host-windows\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home computer use: can a Chromebook host Windows?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44030,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44029\/revisions\/44030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}