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Now, in about 20 minutes, everything is installed for you and the device is rebooted.

So how is it done Simply follow the steps below to find out.

Note: The screenshots in this article were taken with a camera.

During installation, there is no way to get a Chromebook screenshot.).

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You can also pick up a Refurbished Mac from MacSales.com if youre in need of a second or even a first Mac.

Dont have one on hand OWC offers several different models of 16GB flash drives for sale.

For this, and for the purpose of creating the USB installer, you can use any Mac.

Be sure to log into Chrome using a Google account (usually associated with a Gmail account).

The file cloudready-free-46.1.20.bin.zip is downloaded to your Mac automatically and appears in your Macs Downloads folder.

If youre asked where to save the unarchived file, click the button that indicates that you wish to save it in the same folder as the archive file.

The file is unzipped, and a new file named chromiumosimage.bin appears in the Downloads folder.

This takes you to the Chrome Web Store and to the Chromebook Recovery Utility that allows you to create a recovery media for a Chromebook.

Click the Add To Chrome button in the upper right corner (see image below).

When you click on it, the App Launcher displays all of your Chrome apps (see image below).

Remove the flash drive when youre done, and now lets move to the old Mac.

Pressing the Option key while booting displays all of the available boot devices, which should include whatever version of OS X you had installed, the OS X recovery partition, and the flash drive, which will be listed as EFI Boot (outline in red on the image below).

Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to select the flash drive, then press the return key.

Youll get to a point where youre asked for your language, keyboard type and to connect to a Wi-Fi network (see image below).

If its a Gmail address you have associated with Chrome at some point, any and all Chrome apps youve installed will automatically appear on your Chromebook.

Go over to the lower right-hand corner of the screen and click that little image of you.

A menu appears, and the top item on the list under your name is Install CloudReady.

Wait, didnt you already do this No, you actually booted off of the flash drive.

Since your Mac doesnt already have Windows installed, select Install CloudReady Standalone (see image below).