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Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399 (www.cnet.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Salamendacious to c/technology
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The new Plus category of Chromebooks is an assurance that you'll get a higher level of performance and features but still at a reasonable starting price.

With Chromebook Plus, you're guaranteed to get at least the following specs, with a starting price of $399:

  • 12th-gen Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 7000 processor or better
  • 8GB or more of memory
  • 128GB or more of storage
  • 1080p-resolution IPS LCD or better
  • 1080p webcam with temporal noise reduction
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debian has been around for 30 years. And on my non-Chromebook I can always install the latest version.

[–] baronvonj -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debian LTS for stable release is 5 years

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And when that support period ends... I just install the next Debian release.

When the support period for ChromeOS ends, I'm "officially" out of luck.

I have a 13 year old laptop that runs current Linux distros without a problem.

[–] baronvonj -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can install Linux on that old Chromebook, same as you can today. I think also CloudReady could be used. Or Chromium is open source so that custom buildsay be feasible just like with custom Android ROMs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or I could just... buy a laptop that doesn't have an expiration date.

[–] baronvonj -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. My point is simply that with the latest announced support cycle ChromeOS has a longer support cycle than any single Linux distro LTS release I know of, and even when out of support a Chromebook isn't automatically an ewaste paperweight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But you're comparing apples and oranges. With a Chromebook, the OS is being updated to a new version every month. You're comparing a device being able to support a certain number of versions of an OS to an OS receiving application and security updates. It's a meaningless comparison because a typical laptop running Linux can be upgraded to an arbitrary number of new versions of any Linux distribution.