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Re:Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC by jsnell on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:24AM (#27291729)
Going by the dates on Wikipedia, the 2015 Chromebook Pixel had 6 years and 3 months of updates. The Pixelbook will have 6 years and 6 months, the Pixel Slate 7 years and 9 months, and the Pixelbook Go 6 years and 9 months.

1st gen Chromecast stopped getting feature updates after 6 years, but as far as I can tell is still in scope for security fixes. 2nd gen Chromecast seems to still be fully supported 5.5 years after release with no EOL announced yet.

These all seem like very reasonable amounts of time. How long do you think support should actually last?

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Re:Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC by toast0 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:10PM (#27292336)
Really, an x86 laptop should get software updates until the wheels fall off, or something actually needs a CPU extension that's not present.

If you want to be petty, don't add new quality of life features to devices past the sell by date, like say no Android apps on older Chromebooks, even if they've got the hardware virtualization support needed. But when you kill the existing printer service, it's kind of rude to not push the replacement local printer daemon, or leave a half-ass version that doesn't really work either.

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