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"The main problem I have with Chromebooks is that they are not guaranteed to be supported by Google for more than 6.5 years. " I was seriously interested/engage

"The main problem I have with Chromebooks is that they are not guaranteed to be supported by Google for more than 6.5 years. " I was seriously interested/engaged in this then stopped there. I thought to myself, if I am still using the same Chromebook in 6.5 years, either an apocalypse occurred or I am so poor that I will have other problems that are more pressing than worrying about Google support.

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
Why? Hardware holds up well, and web browsing isn't that resource intensive; why should a perfectly good machine just stop working?
- sebringj 7y ago
  I don't agree that something should stop working of course as that is just a straw man...rather from a pragmatic view of actual usage from my own perspective that seems to be fairly normal to use something else within 6 long years that renders the tech of the now obsolete in terms of attention over gathering dust so thus I stop caring whether it is supported or not.
- c256 7y ago
  It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates, presumably because there are many dozens of hardware configuration to manage, and having fallen into that trap once with Android devices, they didn’t want to immediately jump into the same pit a second time.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
    > It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates No security updates on a browser (a program designed entirely for pulling and running/rendering arbitrary code and data from untrusted sources) is a death sentence. > having fallen into that trap once with Android devices Google doesn't maintain any Android devices except its own.
- c256 7y ago
  FWIW, a common thing to do with a chromebook that has gone out of update service is to install either a non-Google ChromeOS like Cloudready, or just install Linux directly. Both approaches are usually easy and effective.

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago

Why? Hardware holds up well, and web browsing isn't that resource intensive; why should a perfectly good machine just stop working?

sebringj 7y ago
I don't agree that something should stop working of course as that is just a straw man...rather from a pragmatic view of actual usage from my own perspective that seems to be fairly normal to use something else within 6 long years that renders the tech of the now obsolete in terms of attention over gathering dust so thus I stop caring whether it is supported or not.
c256 7y ago
It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates, presumably because there are many dozens of hardware configuration to manage, and having fallen into that trap once with Android devices, they didn’t want to immediately jump into the same pit a second time.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  > It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates No security updates on a browser (a program designed entirely for pulling and running/rendering arbitrary code and data from untrusted sources) is a death sentence. > having fallen into that trap once with Android devices Google doesn't maintain any Android devices except its own.
c256 7y ago
FWIW, a common thing to do with a chromebook that has gone out of update service is to install either a non-Google ChromeOS like Cloudready, or just install Linux directly. Both approaches are usually easy and effective.