Chromebook, Old Wiped Computer with no operating system, or other compatible with LV

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My team is looking for a different computer to work with. The problem with our current one is that it was less than a meg of storage and WIFI doesn't work period. Our options look something like a Dell or Acer Chromebook, a Completly wiped older Labtop, or a alternative computer which our sponser would provide.

Our school gives Chromebooks to all the students in our school. My one concern is with the Chromebooks are we going to run into compatibilty issues with LabView and be unable to download some required software. Another issue would be that, to my knowledge, they don't store anything on the actual computer other than the rudiments. Everything is stored on a cloud so I'm not sure how this would affect LabView

Our problem with the Wiped Computer is
1. We don't know what operating system to put on it
2. We don't know how to put that operating system on it
3. Would that operating system be compatible with LabView
4. Is the Computer fast enough? (2.2 GigaHertz Max) (4 megs of storage)
5. Is that battery life resilant enough to last long enough for the competiton?

Alternatively to the other options, if we could justify the need for a new computer to our sponser, they would get us one. Assuming that the above options aren't realistic, what type of computer would you reccomend. Keep in mind that this computer would be only used for the sole use of LabView so we wouldn't need to get some fancy AlienWare labtop, just something fast enough that when we try to code, we wouldn't be waiting 15 minutes for it to load.

Comments and thoughts are appreciated. I am certainly not the most knowledgable in computer hardware so excuse me if I contradicted myself and just sounded stupid on the technical aspect of things. Thanks for any help.