Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste

Re:Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’r... by mdwalters on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:12PM (#37384498)

I believe it's the planned obsolecense feature's fault for turning Chromebooks into e-waste.

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Re:Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’r... by throwaway4220 on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:18PM (#37384563)

This lies squarely with Google. I bought a fully functional 11 inch acer intel touchscreen Chromebook for 25 on eBay which got its last update last year. I converted it to Ubuntu which was a pain

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Re:Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’r... by vorticalbox on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:18PM (#37384568)

I have a perfectly good chromebook for a few years ago that is just sat in a box becuase it's running a super old version of chromeOS.

I could just install Linux but the battery is definitely worse when not on chromeOS

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