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Re:All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward by cure on Thursday May 09, 2019 @12:55PM (#19869927)
It is still planned obselescence, even at 6.5 years.

I still use a lenovo t420 that is almost 8 years old. I bought it with the fastest processor available back then, and it is still plenty useful as a Debian desktop.

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Re:All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward by neilv on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:05PM (#19870029)
That's a perfectly fine Linux workstation for most non-GPU purposes. I use a slightly older model ThinkPad, in which I upgrade the CPU, RAM, and keyboard. (It does mean running my own GPU server, over the network, for Tensorflow, etc., which is an inconvenience compared to onboard. But "cloud" is en vogue anyway.)
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Re:All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward by givinguflac on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:36PM (#19870308)
Lenovo didn’t even officially support t420 windows 10 drivers. You didn’t even get half that 6.5 years before the mfr considered it obsolete.
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Re:All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward by currysausage on Thursday May 09, 2019 @02:22PM (#19870766)
First, Windows 8(.1) is supported until 2023. Second, Windows 8 drivers will usually work smoothly under Windows 10, and I see plenty Windows 8 drivers for the T420 in Driver Matrix. There's even a BIOS update from 2018-06-25.

My T430 (one generation later) received a BIOS update in February and I expect more to come.

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Re:All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward by givinguflac on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:26PM (#19942680)
If using outdated drivers on unsupported hardware is your idea of full vendor support then enjoy. Your mention of a newer model doesn’t change anything about the op.
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