Chromebook obsolete (screens, settings, delete, HP)

[V8 Vega]

I have a Toshiba chromebook II 8 years old and works perfectly, never had any trouble.

[Malloric]

It's over 8 years old. Eight years used to be the end of life for Chromebook, now pushed out to 10. Often times what happened is some company made a cheap Chromebook in 2013 and then sold it for two years. So right there you've gone from 8 years down to 6. Then it doesn't sell and sits in a warehouse until it gets sold as ewaste and gets listed up on Amazon with a big discount. At this point it's 4-5 years old but some uninformed buyer thinks they're getting a great deal since it's 56% off! They hate it because it's budget badness from 5 years ago and then of course they hate it even more when after three years it tells them it's too old for updates anymore. Those early cheap Chromebooks were pretty much just Netbooks. They could do light web browsing but chunked on heavier ones like Facebook, email, basic word processing. That was about it.

[blisterpeanuts]

I got my wife an Acer Chromebook 2 years ago, and she sort of hates it. It's fine for surfing the web, but she does a lot of Zoom meetings and unfortunately it doesn't work as well as Windows/Mac.

Plus, it's gotten slower and slower.

I'm thinking of getting her a Macbook Air. She's a Windows person (as I used to be) but after you get used to the "Mac" way of doing things, it's a pretty simple user interface and everything just works.

[ntwrkguy1]

I'm of the mindset that Chromebook was obsolete the day it hit the retail shelves....

[Floorist]

Originally Posted by ntwrkguy1

I'm of the mindset that Chromebook was obsolete the day it hit the retail shelves....

It was just junk to make money.

[Malloric]

Originally Posted by blisterpeanuts

I got my wife an Acer Chromebook 2 years ago, and she sort of hates it. It's fine for surfing the web, but she does a lot of Zoom meetings and unfortunately it doesn't work as well as Windows/Mac.

Plus, it's gotten slower and slower.

I'm thinking of getting her a Macbook Air. She's a Windows person (as I used to be) but after you get used to the "Mac" way of doing things, it's a pretty simple user interface and everything just works.

The basic iPad with a typecover replaced the Chromebook for me. I never hated it, but then I spent a bit more (still under $300) for one with an SSD rather than slowskie eMCC flash memory. The Chromebook/iPad basically serve the same function. Videoconferencing was why the Chromebook was replaced. The iPad is much better for that so once COVID came along the Chromebook was no longer really doing what I needed. I'm not a Mac person and get none of the advantages of being in that environment where the iPad works with the Macbook. It's just tough to beat an iPad though as much as I'm pre-conditioned to wish that wasn't the case.

[jetgraphics]

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[akrausz]

(For the benefit of folks considering a new device and might be trying to learn about what works and what doesn't.)

Originally Posted by ntwrkguy1

I'm of the mindset that Chromebook was obsolete the day it hit the retail shelves....

How is a new one obsolete?

Originally Posted by Floorist

It was just junk to make money.

How is a new one junk?

[Floorist]

Originally Posted by akrausz

(For those considering a new device and might be trying to learn about what works and what doesn't.)


How is a new one obsolete?


How is a new one junk?

They will have a shorter life span than other laptops.

[akrausz]

Originally Posted by Floorist

They will have a shorter life span than other laptops.

Agreed (sort of). There are folks with $200 Chromebooks that are getting a shorter life-span than $500 Windows laptops...go figure! I suppose I'm biased because I'm old school. Decades ago we never expected to get more than 5 years out of a laptop (maybe a couple years more if it costs $3,000). For me, if I get 8 years out of my $250 Chromebook, I will be totally satisfied that I did not buy obsolete junk.

As previously stated, Chromebook lifespan has supposedly increased...so we shall see.