Now if you wish to make the machine dual-boot, you can do so by what is called a Boot camp. The new Battery life is probably slightly better than that of OS X. Hexxeh says it could have been even less, could the system bypassed Apple’s EFI implementation. However, this makes the system gain a boot time to make it up to 22 seconds to the login screen.

One major problem in this hack is that the Chrome OS build cannot be installed from an USB stick, so one will have to install it on the Air’s SSD – removing the stock Mac OS X in the process. For example, the touchpad drivers could use some tweaking, as scrolling seems to be painfully slow right now. Apart from that most other things like the Wi-Fi, graphics accelerator via the NVIDIA graphics chip, screen brightness controls, audio, touchpad etc perform as expected – although some not optimally. This is understandable as Bluetooth isn’t currently supported by the Chromium OS. He is pretty confident that every piece of hardware works except for the Bluetooth. This would make the Macbook Air to dual-boot into either of the two operating systems. Popular Chrome OS hacker Hexxeh has released a Chrome OS build that can be hacked into a Macbook Air. If you find your $1000 Macbook Air too costly – this might give you something more to cheer about.

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