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Can anyone with more Chromebook experience explain how much of the “OS” is going to continue to be updated with this new change? Chrome OS is very web-centric,
by geoffpado 6y ago
Can anyone with more Chromebook experience explain how much of the “OS” is going to continue to be updated with this new change? Chrome OS is very web-centric, so… does continuing to update the browser have a major impact to the life of these devices? Or is it literally just the browser?
- nick_kline 6y agoToday they update everything until the end of life. Google has made no announcement about extending life with only browser updates - that would be great but I'd be surprised. They could just use this change to make faster updates by separating the browser and OS, that's the obvious thing. It would be really great for google to extend support and make the browser updateable later - the browser must be the vast majority of attacks. I think they have to keep old hardware around and they want to use more power, it's hard to keep things working on weaker, older systems. My guess is google doesn't add chrome-only updates to existing end-of-lifed units, it will only be for new ones. But I hope I'm wrong.