Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportable, 4G LTE Equipped

Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by mark_l_watson on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:18AM (#24886461)

I am a fan of ChromeOS and Chromebook's, even though the one I have is about six years old.

From a security perspective, it bothers me to see so many companies allow their proprietary and sensitive digital assets to float around the physical world on employee’s laptops. At Google, I liked the prohibition from keeping material on laptops.

Off subject, but I hope Google releases a new Chromebook Go soon, I would like to get a new Chromebook.

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Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by eigenvector on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:27AM (#24893905)

From a security perspective, ChromeOS bothers me because it has a much shorter software support lifecycle than the hardware lifespan.

We have ChromeOS devices out there are perfectly able to run the latest ChromeOS in terms of specs but aren't supported anymore by Google because of an arbitrary time-based EOL and therefore will either be browsing the web unpatched or thrown away.

Whereas any other x86 computer from the last 12+ years or so can have up-to-date Windows or Linux put on it.

Another step on our march to disposable everything.

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Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by pjmlp on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:53AM (#24894747)

From a security perspective, it bothers me to see so many companies willing to put their golden eggs on Google's computers.

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