Given the condition of my kids’ Chromebooks, that lifecycle is just right, plus Chromebooks were a fantastic investment. I did spend over $400 for “nice” (but not high end) Chromebooks, so they were lightweight, excellent battery, durable, and good performance. After 4-5 years, performance and battery are still good for a full school day, but they’re all dinged up, bent and mangled. They’ve been dropped, kicked, stuffed into things, had various liquids spilled into them, etc. they e done well to survive a hard life, but it’s time.
I could have gotten cheap Windows laptops for a similar price, that would not have done nearly as well, by every measure
lasagna@programming.dev 1 year ago
Just a reflection of our wasteful culture. If it was up to the likes of Google, Samsung, etc. we’d all be buying new tech annually.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Precisely! As long as consumers continue to play their game, they’ll keep upping the ante.
My main computers are 8+ years old running Linux and performing astoundingly well.
Unfortunately, 90% of the time a typical non-savvy consumer buys a new machine it’s for all the wrong reasons and they really don’t have to. They just don’t know better.