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Actually MacBooks get 6/7 years from when Apple stops selling them. In contrast, the timer starts as soon as the first Chromebook with that cpu is released. It
by boredishBoi 7y ago
Actually MacBooks get 6/7 years from when Apple stops selling them. In contrast, the timer starts as soon as the first Chromebook with that cpu is released. It was a nasty surprise when I found that out
- choward 7y agoThat is terrible. So they'll never create a device that is good enough that they'll sell for for 6 years unless they sell something they don't support.
- pgeorgi 7y agoOr extend the support: https://9to5google.com/2019/11/05/google-chromebooks-extended-software-support/ https://9to5google.com/2019/11/05/google-chromebooks-extende... Other than that, few vendors sell 6 year old computers. Since Apple is often put up as model company here: 2013 had the iPhone 5s which was sold until early 2016, and the end-2013 MacBook Pro (based on Haswell) which was replaced by its successor in 2014 (based on Haswell-Refresh).
- daemin 7y agoI think the point was that the product was so minimal and cheap that you would throw it away and get a new one like a phone.
- kulahan 7y agoCorrect. That's why the vast majority of them are ~$250 or less
- jiqiren 7y agohttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 It's ~7 years of hardware parts availability. Software is around 7-10 years.
- JoBrad 7y agoMade me laugh for some reason. > Monster-branded Beats products are considered obsolete regardless of when they were purchased.
- criddell 7y agoI didn't realize that. When I think about how many schools have bought racks of Chromebooks and how long they keep them in use I realize that there are lots of kids out there using insecure machines. And all of them have cameras and microphones. Yikes!