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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by fma on Thursday September 14, 2023 @08:42PM (#37516734)
There was an article from the WSJ that wrecks Google for e-waste due to not supporting Chromebooks past 5 years. A lot of chromebooks were purchased from 2020 due to the pandemic. It's not the date of purchase that determines obsolescence, so many were coming up to be thrown away.

It would be better if Google defaults to supporting 2020, 2019 (Many purchased in 2020 were manufactured in 2019).

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by nolist_policy on Friday September 15, 2023 @03:23AM (#37519664)
If you where cheaping out an bought Windows 10 devices in 2020, you'd also only get 5 years of support.
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