![]() I personally may have gone through the trouble of converting mine to 512 GB if I had decided to keep using it as my main laptop. Of course, I highly recommend a good backup routine if you do this, since SD cards aren’t generally as reliable as internal SSD drives, but I recommend one in any case. ![]() You can basically mount the SD card where you like in the file system. Also, storage can be augmented, even in something like the Pixel, which is stuck at either 32 or 64 GB, with a physically short SD card that you leave in the SD slot permanently. So, a Chromebook like mine can be converted to a Linux laptop with a decent amount of internal storage. However, now you can get a 512 GB NGFF drive. Well, when I converted my Chromebook to Linux, 128 GB was the biggest NGFF drive you could get. It just seems to me that the PC industry is now a trend-follower, instead of being a G. But that’s not to say that these Chromebooks aren’t good for college kids or the professional who doesn’t have a plethora of files that are absolutely necessary to be available at all times. No, I’d rather lug my dell Latitude E-4300 (small and light!)and my WD 2TB Hard Drive with me everywhere I go, than to sacrifice it just to be able to show off my shiny new hardware, that can’t hold one quarter of my stuff. Especially when you take into consideration the fact that I live in mountainous areas in Pennsylvania and connectivity isn’t the greatest. 128GB?….256GB?….I’m a “1-2 TB” kinda guy! I have documents, movies, music, and various online books that would easily choke the life out of this thing! And while I understand these devices were built for accessing documents / files / media that reside in the cloud, I don’t like the idea of having all my “stuff” sitting out in the cloud. I am from the “old school” and I don’t believe in paying top dollar for limited storage space. So while I can appreciate the hardware of Chrome-books? I’m not a fan at all. I finally decided I wanted an IPS screen laptop. The only reason I’m not still using my Chromebook as my main laptop is that the screen is not IPS. To get more storage on a Pixel, you have to use the SD card slot or a USB slot. On my Chromebook 14, I replaced the 16 GB NGFF drive with a 128 GB one. The downside with a Pixel is that the SSD is not removable/replaceable. I believe that the same things are possible with a Pixel. After that, it’s no riskier than a regular computer. Still, you can open the machine, remove the write protect screw for the BIOS and switch it so it always boots to SeaBIOS instead of loading the Chrome OS bootstrap by default (which I eventually did to mine). However, it’s true that if you leave it that way, it’s possible that for no particular reason it will mess up your install on occasion (it happened once on my HP Chromebook 14 when I was booting it that way). Well, my experience is not with a Pixel, but generally if you become distracted, the machine will just fail to boot, unless you tell it to do more.
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