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This software turns old laptops into new Chromebooks

eSchool News: When Waller Independent School District of Waller, Texas, decided to start upgrading its laptops and desktops to Windows 7 in 2014, the district had one big concern: time. After years of using Chromebooks alongside its traditional laptops, school leaders were anticipating lightning-fast boot up times from their new investments.

What they found was less than encouraging—even newer laptops, they learned, require a good 60 to 90 seconds to boot up. “In education, that just doesn’t work,” says Rosa Ojeda, technology director for the 8-school, 6,700-student district. “When a teacher is working with 30 students, and when each needs a minute-and-a-half to boot up, you’ve lost that educational moment.”

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