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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by wrs on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:12PM (#37512627)
I’m wondering if that will be a paid option. That’s how the last stage of support for commercial OSes often works.
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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by ewoodrich on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:41PM (#37512992)
I have an original Pixelbook (late 2017 release date) and the auto update support page [1] has been updated from June 2024 to June 2027 (with an asterisk saying it is user opt in but that's all I can see). So at first glance it doesn't seem to be paid.

My Pixelbook doesn't get much use anymore vs my M1 MacBook but it's nice to know it will still be supported. It can be a handy thin client and I don't have to worry as much about it getting stolen/abusing at this point in its life.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?visit_id=...

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