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I mean, what do they expect? People already have their Chromebooks, they're set for a decade, it's not like power or utilities with recurring revenue ...

by dheera 5y ago

smorgusofborg 5y ago
> set for a decade Not really, the normal support life is 6.5 years from first manufacture, I've seen chrome devices for sale with less than 2 years support remaining. https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en
- dheera 5y ago
  "support" is overrated. Who needs support for Google Chrome? People will use them until they can't use them anymore.
  - uuuuuu 5y ago
    When my Chromebook fell out of "support" it became useless. Like, I couldn't open a console or run Crouton to do what I needed to do. The hardware was fine, just Google remotely broke my machine. I liked my Chromebook, but will never get another one. I'm happy with my used Thinkpad that cost about as much as the Chromebook. I'm finished with Google.
    - smorgusofborg 5y ago
      I'm in the same boat on not buying new Chromebooks. I was able to convert one of my old x86 one into a Linux machine by flashing the bios, but converting Arm ones is even less certain.
michaelt 5y ago
If you're a school district, presumably a quarter of your users graduate every year and are replaced by new students. Which means new chromebooks. Albeit not as many as they needed at the start of the pandemic.
- Dma54rhs 5y ago
  Students get to keep them in the US?
  - michaelt 5y ago
    I can't imagine they re-use four-year-old laptops that have been getting carted around to and from school by teenagers for years. Nobody buys a Celeron laptop with 4GB of RAM thinking they're getting a future-proof system that'll last a decade. At most, you might issue returned ones to people who lost or broke the one they were issued.
- dheera 5y ago
  > Which means new chromebooks. They'll most likely reuse them for many years, OR have a student keep a single chromebook through many grades. Schools in the US aren't that well funded that they can give every student a free laptop every year.

I mean, what do they expect? People already have their Chromebooks, they're set for a decade, it's not like power or utilities with recurring revenue ...

by dheera 5y ago

I mean, what do they expect? People already have their Chromebooks, they're set for a decade, it's not like power or utilities with recurring revenue ...

smorgusofborg 5y ago

> set for a decade Not really, the normal support life is 6.5 years from first manufacture, I've seen chrome devices for sale with less than 2 years support remaining. https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en

dheera 5y ago
"support" is overrated. Who needs support for Google Chrome? People will use them until they can't use them anymore.
- uuuuuu 5y ago
  When my Chromebook fell out of "support" it became useless. Like, I couldn't open a console or run Crouton to do what I needed to do. The hardware was fine, just Google remotely broke my machine. I liked my Chromebook, but will never get another one. I'm happy with my used Thinkpad that cost about as much as the Chromebook. I'm finished with Google.
  - smorgusofborg 5y ago
    I'm in the same boat on not buying new Chromebooks. I was able to convert one of my old x86 one into a Linux machine by flashing the bios, but converting Arm ones is even less certain.

michaelt 5y ago

If you're a school district, presumably a quarter of your users graduate every year and are replaced by new students. Which means new chromebooks. Albeit not as many as they needed at the start of the pandemic.

Dma54rhs 5y ago
Students get to keep them in the US?
- michaelt 5y ago
  I can't imagine they re-use four-year-old laptops that have been getting carted around to and from school by teenagers for years. Nobody buys a Celeron laptop with 4GB of RAM thinking they're getting a future-proof system that'll last a decade. At most, you might issue returned ones to people who lost or broke the one they were issued.
dheera 5y ago
> Which means new chromebooks. They'll most likely reuse them for many years, OR have a student keep a single chromebook through many grades. Schools in the US aren't that well funded that they can give every student a free laptop every year.