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First Batch Of Chromebooks Reach End Of Life, To Stop Receiving Support and Updates (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a BetaNews report:The original Chromebooks launched back in 2011 are reaching the end of their support cycle. With Google offering a fairly generous five years of support and updates, users have had a good run, but the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is the first device to drop off the support list. Having been launched in August 2011, Acer AC700 Chromebook will be in a similar position in a couple of months. Google says that after five years, automatic updates are "no longer guaranteed". Interestingly, it has continued to provide updates to at least one of its own device that originated in 2010. It's not entirely clear what will happen by the end of this month, but if the company sticks to how it handles its smartphones, you should be worried.
I hear there are lots of distros to choose from.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
It's because of people like you that we're overrun by hardware in dumps all over the world.
If we were talking 2001, I would be inclined to agree. But these computers are only 5 years old. The socks I'm wearing are older than that.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
For comparison, MS only ended support for Windows XP in 2014. That was over 12 years after its release.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I never saw the fascination with a device that had so little storage I can't even run off the whole contents of my camera onto if I'm not connected to the web.
Cheap? Not really. Given that for another $100 I can get better specs, a real storage device, and an operating system that's $100 to buy (I realize some don't want Windows), the cost of a Chromebook is really expensive. Not to mention Google spying on you!
HexaByte - he's a square and a half!
TFA states that the Chromebooks will continue to function - they just won't get updates. Assuming Google told people going in what the support term would be, I don't see the big deal.
But is is a reminder that paying $1200+ for one of those high-end Chromebooks might not have been a particularly wise choice.
#DeleteChrome
Of course it does. It says NotDrWho is smart for choosing quality clothes that survive being worn and machine-washed hundreds of times, rather than cheap discount-store clothes that may not last even a hundred washes (two years).