Chromebooks End Of Life

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Chromebooks End Of Life

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Great article and spot on:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3 ... ndard.html

The good news: lots of Chromebooks are going to be converted to Linux machines.
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Mine's already running MX... ;)
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mxer wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:00 am Mine's already running MX... ;)
They make wonderful lightweight Linux laptops and the battery life is very good :)
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AntiX on mine. My druthers have switched to chromebooks over regular netbooks because of cost and they work real well on the motorcycle trips using my phone data plan as my router. They pack light and are semi-durable.
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rokytnji.1 wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:02 am AntiX on mine. My druthers have switched to chromebooks over regular netbooks because of cost and they work real well on the motorcycle trips using my phone data plan as my router. They pack light and are semi-durable.
I really like the size of them. And they don't need to be plugged in for hours. I'm glad to see them being made increasingly durable. The school market helped a lot with that. The biggest weakness is the same of all modern laptops--soldered on SSD and Ram.
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KBD wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:01 am
mxer wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:00 am Mine's already running MX... ;)
They make wonderful lightweight Linux laptops and the battery life is very good :)
Not much storage to speak of though, on most of them anyway.
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JayM wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:08 am

Not much storage to speak of though, on most of them anyway.
Agreed. One way around that is too use an external USB stick as the main drive. I have a 120gb USB with MX on it that I can run a Chromebook off of.
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My mom has a Chromebook from 2013 (still gets updates), I haven't got a "support call" from her, we are in 2019. I think that's a pretty good record for a $249.99 device at that time.
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Adrian wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:40 am My mom has a Chromebook from 2013 (still gets updates), I haven't got a "support call" from her, we are in 2019. I think that's a pretty good record for a $249.99 device at that time.
If it hasn't yet, it will start getting pop up warnings that support has ended. It may still work for quite awhile, but as time goes on it will be sketchy running it without updates. For inexpensive devices 5 years support is not terrible, but Chromebooks have gone up quite a bit in price in the past couple of years. But build quality has also improved.
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JayM wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:08 am Not much storage to speak of though, on most of them anyway.
Very true, (& mine is a 2GB ram/16GB eMMC), but it's enough for the O/S & a few files, using an external drive for music & media storage, it seems to work well.

My main use is as a morning internet connection for emails & checking my various forums, so I don't need a lot of storage space.

For daytime use I have a regular laptop upstairs, 4GB ram/160GB HDD, again, music & media, plus online activities is what it's used for, in the main, with a bit of audio recording thrown in.
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