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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And you can install those distros on a Chromebook, no? You can probably use CloudReady after ChromeOS no longer supports it after 10 years.

Debian LTS for stable releases is 5 years

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Ubuntu LTS is 5 years

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

Fedora is 13 months

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

LTS just means staying on the same release and guaranteed support for that time which is important for businesses. As a consumer you can always just do a release upgrade.

Since most businesses rely on Windows anyway, that's pretty much irrelevant for this discussion. They cannot use Chromebooks either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The original assertion was that a Chromebook becomes useless ewaste when the software updates stop. But as of today Chromeos gets software updates for longer than any Linux distro major release (10 years ChromeOS vs 5 years for Linux). You can install Linux on that Chromebook after Google stops supporting it just the same as the Windows laptop after Dell stops supporting it. And there's CloudReady and Chromium. Theyre not ewaste without Google updates, you have options.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

But contrary to Linux or even Windows (unless they pull some hardware requirement shit again) you need to switch to another OS and not simply do a release upgrade.

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