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> 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 re
by 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 agoWhen 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 agoI'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.