Design quirks, limited parts, and other ways Chromebooks frustrate repairs
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#2This is a deeply stupid paper that isn’t supported by the sources it cites. According to the source data, the only Chromebook with a firm number for greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing is the Pixelbook, and according to the same data it has the least embodied carbon of any laptop in their database. Other laptops in their list have as much as five times as much embodied carbon.
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#3It's weird to see Google getting picked on for this. Other manufacturers are a lot worse and provide a lot less guarantees about updates.
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#44 years isn't that bad. I'd wager the average Intel Macbook is going to run out of support sooner.
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#54 years isn't that bad. I'd wager the average Intel Macbook is going to run out of support sooner.
I'm typing this reply on 2013 Macbook Pro; maybe I got lucky with this one, but it doesn't show signs of stopping.
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#6It's weird to see Google getting picked on for this. Other manufacturers are a lot worse and provide a lot less guarantees about updates.
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#7I wonder how many people will use the headline to defend chromebooks without reading the article itself...
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#84 years isn't that bad. I'd wager the average Intel Macbook is going to run out of support sooner.
That would be really bad if true, a high end laptop like a Macbook should have support for a long time.
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#94 years isn't that bad. I'd wager the average Intel Macbook is going to run out of support sooner.
That would be really bad if true, a high end laptop like a Macbook should have support for a long time.
I agree. My 2009 Thinkpad still gets security patches, it would be a shame for premium devices to lose first-party support so soon. Goes to show the importance of an unlocked bootloader, I guess.
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#104 years isn't that bad. I'd wager the average Intel Macbook is going to run out of support sooner.
My 2012 t420 runs windows 10 and is nowhere near out of support.