Computers that stop working less than 5 years after they first go on sale should be illegal—not fit for purpose under consumer protection law. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/no-discounts-or-warnings-for-people-shopping-eol-chromebooks-on-amazon-walmart/
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 as far as I can tell, the CPU and architecture of my Chromebook I got in 2018 is still in newer machines being sold with an EoL in the future
So not sure why it was necessary, apart from an arbitrary "buy a new Chromebook" push
nostr:npub1fgrrkcptz5hwg7s0na9at92h5rk64q2lcmsafue76l8vla2uttsq3auxh0 Yup. This is worse than Apple when they're trying to drive a migration to a whole new architecture (eg. PPC->Intel, Intel->ARM), which at least has a faint justification (during the transition they have to maintain full stack portability across two CPU families).
nostr:npub1fgrrkcptz5hwg7s0na9at92h5rk64q2lcmsafue76l8vla2uttsq3auxh0 nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 having played around with the ChromeOS build system in the past, it's very much tied to specific models, not just CPU+architecture. This is likely them not wanting to continue updating/building/testing against all those models. (But the end result sucks )
nostr:npub1fgrrkcptz5hwg7s0na9at92h5rk64q2lcmsafue76l8vla2uttsq3auxh0 nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 Apple used to -- I don't know if they still do -- allow unquestioned returns of any product sold before a replacement announcement.
