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Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

238 points · 148 comments · rbanffy

TheqO · 1790700215 · focus · HN ↗
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    &gt; Googlebooks are the Google&#x27;s replacement for Chromebooks, the web-centric computers it launched in 2011 and which run ChromeOS....

    The newer Googlebook range uses more powerful processors than their predecessors, plus a new OS called Googlebook OS that bakes in Google’s Gemini AI – a product the Chocolate Factory is very keen to see succeed as the great AI land grab continues.

    ...If you buy a Chromebook today, updates will end in 2034 eight years into the future
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So they have introduced a major change and said any older Chromebooks bought going forward will only get 8. So its not a retrospective reduction for existing customers.
Sounds reasonable.
8 years is still a long time for a cheap Chromebook.
1. JimDabell · 1790700819 · focus · HN ↗
  Large organisations don’t buy a single batch of machines then call it a day. If an organisation standardised on Chromebooks because of the support period, they will still need to buy new machines and those won’t get the support period they had expected.
  1. gegtik · 1790702959 · focus · HN ↗
    are you saying google is betraying them unless they sell new chromebooks with 10y chromeOS contracts going forward until the heat death of the universe?
    JimDabell · 1790704817 · focus · HN ↗
    Can you quote the part of my comment that you think says that?

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