Man — I’ve been “upgrading” an awful lot of old computers lately.

It all started last week, when I went to look at my mom’s Windows XP system and figure out how to get her onto a more current operating system. My main concern was Google’s pending end-of-support date for Chrome on XP. After much consideration, I decided the best path was to “upgrade” by buying a $140 Chromebox and moving my mom into the fluffy-light land o’ Chrome OS.

After I wrote about that family tech support adventure, several people asked why I didn’t instead turn to CloudReady. CloudReady, if you haven’t heard of it (and if you don’t follow tech news like a hawk, there’s a good chance you haven’t) is a new-ish service that lets you convert old computers into cloud-centric Chromebook-like systems. It’s provided free of charge to individual users by a company called Neverware.

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