

In Windows or macOS, Chrome is good at allowing tabs to be logged into different Workspaces accounts. Signing in to ChromeOS Flex therefore gave me a very familiar experience – and some frustrations. Here at The Register we also use Workspaces. I'm one of those people using Google's legacy (free) version of the Workspaces cloudy productivity suite.

If you've used a Chromebook you know the drill: Google offers a few apps, but expects you'll do almost everything in its Chrome browser. Setup was slick and simple – once I fed the machine my Google credentials and a Wi-Fi password it just started working. An hour later, the MacBook had become a ChromeOS FlexBook – after a few jittery moments when the install process displayed white noise on the machine's screen.
