**GUIDE** Install Windows 8 on the Acer C720

The Acer C720 is a great notebook but the limited capabilities of Chrome OS can be daunting at times. Here is a way to install Windows 8 for those who do not have a spare machine:

• Make a Windows 8.1 bootable USB (Google this)
• Put the Acer C720 into Dev mode and enable legacy boot. (Google this)
• Install windows 8.1 from the Windows 8.1 USB you made by pressing Ctrl+L when starting the Chromebook.
• Do not let ANY drivers auto-install/update as they do not work properly

Problems:
Keyboard and Trackpad do not work.
Sound does not work.
Video Accelaration does not work.
Power Management does not work.

To make these work we need the drivers, Acer have officially said they will not release them, the only other way is to somehow port over the Linux drivers -- and that seems impossible at this current time.

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Why I did this? Because a user called: Videomarquantoè , kept writing articles on how hostile the Acer C720 is, this to prove how it is not but just needs full time developers working on it.

It was not intended for Windows 8 and is more capable of running it then other Chromebooks.

So it is far from hostile, yes it is difficult to upgrade the RAM as it is soldered but that can still be done it is just harder, what do you accept from a £200 laptop. Can you upgrade the RAM on a £250 Windows 8 Tablet?
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Thanks to Joseph Halder for uploading video running Windows 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0IljnLyG9Y
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