#Install chrome os on mac partition install#
#Install chrome os on mac partition upgrade#

MacOS also works quite well, except for battery percentage, fingerprint reader and the touchpad is a bit wonky. Manjaro worked with full functionality except the fingerprint reader.

In Windows (or using a Linux Live USB) make sure to partition your drive before jumping in to installing Mac OS.īurn ISO, boot and configure.

Hold Volume DOWN and press enter to boot to USB for installing Linux, Mac OS, etc.

(There are solutions in place for using TPM, bitlocker and OpenCore, you can Google that if you want to set it up.

Back in Windows, disable bitlocker, or you'll have to enter a lengthy code every so often, and I decided it's not worth it.

Hold Volume UP and press power until the UEFI boot menu appears.

Windows 11 should be installed first if you want to use it. Part 1: Disable bitlocker, TPM, and partition your SSD On Fedora, everything except power management works but the battery was not recognized. Note: for GNU/Linux, I've had the best success with Manjaro so far. This hardware is quite simple to configure and works well with all three options.

SSD: 128GB or 256GB NVME M.2 - as noted, definitely worth upgrading.

Audio: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology (Realtek ALC274 codec).

Wifi: Intel Killer Wifi 6 AX1650i (201NGW).

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics (Iris Plus Graphics G1).

You'll want the new 1TB SSD to be formatted as NTFS or else you can't recover from your USB to the internal drive.Īs per usual, the process described in this document could cause irreversible damage to your laptop, and I accept absolutely no responsibility for the consequences of anyone choosing to follow or ignore any of the instructions in this document, and make no guarantees about the quality or effectiveness of the software in this repo.

Gently wiggle that out and replace the SSD. You'll see the black rectangular metal shield covering the NVMe drive. You don't need to disconnect the keyboard but you can if you want to.

Watch this teardown video to see how you remove the bottom screws (be gentle removing the rubber strips!), then carefully lift off the keyboard.

Follow MrHG78's guide for instructions on a different Surface, but it's the same procedure.

Just make sure to create a recovery drive before you start - any external USB with 16GB of space will do.

On Surface laptops with M.2 drives like this one, upgrading the SSD is quite easy.

#Install chrome os on mac partition upgrade#

If you have a 64GB it is EMMC, and part of the motherboard, so you can't upgrade it. This guide is for the 128GB / 256GB version only, as they have NVMe SSDs.

#Install chrome os on mac partition install#

Install guide for booting Mac OS, Linux and ChromeOS with Brunch.