Submitted 8 months ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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
128GB eMMC storage
Man, I feel like there’s no excuse for not having at least a 256/512gb SSD these days. They’ve gotten pretty cheap, and you got laptops like HP Pavilion having a 1tb SSD in their laptops for $450. Chromebooks are known for being super cheap, but this doesn’t look like great value.
Google wants you to not store locally though, only in their servers at a cost once you pass the “free storage” amount.
Jesus Christ the comments here are super toxic. Literally any piece of news is gonna be complaining.
They’re being toxic to Google. Do you really care about that?
Negative comments on tech devices that aren’t up to par are warrented. I, for one, and glad that news of this new product is getting honest treatment.
impressive! the ultimate botnet machine!
Are Chromebooks more susceptible to that than a Windows machine?
Far less, since they’re quite locked down (hence their popularity in education).
I suspect it was just a reference to google spying on people.
whileloop@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unless you can easily upgrade the RAM, Storage, and replace the OS when it loses support, it’s still ewaste.
macallik@kbin.social 8 months ago
It is worth noting that they updated their support to be 10 years moving forward, so I disagree with the eWaste sentiment. I agree that Linux as a permanent alternative isn't super easy, and I say that typing from a Chromebook running Debian 12.
notthebees@reddthat.com 8 months ago
You can upgrade the RAM and storage on some of them. Installing either Linux or windows is also possible.
whileloop@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Possible != easy. Putting Linux on any old Windows PC is dead easy, takes not even half an hour. Linux on a Chromebook? Easily hour+ long headache on your first time.
db2@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
ChromeOS is Linux.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 8 months ago
Apple laptops you can’t upgrade any of those things and they sell like hotcakes. It’s really not something most people do.
It looks like lenovo is already selling laptops at that spec, with the chromebook version being £50 cheaper than the windows version. Bet it’s the same hardware underneath… the rest is microsoft tax. If it is the same hardware, putting linux on it is going to be fairly easy.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Which consumer desktop Linux distros have more than 10 years of updates?
whileloop@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All of them!
Linux and Linux distros are generally designed to be hardware-agnostic, and generally works just fine on very old components. I’m currently running the current version of Ubuntu on a used U1 server from ~2013, no issues, no headaches. It just works. Grab any Windows PC from the last 20 years, you won’t have any compatibility issues running most Linux distros, though some distros might expect more performance. Linux Mint is fairly lightweight.
raptir@lemdro.id 8 months ago
Debian has been around for 30 years. And on my non-Chromebook I can always install the latest version.
hperrin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just recently installed the latest version of Manjaro on a Dell XPS 15z from 2011. So Manjaro supports hardware from at least 12 years ago.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
zdnet.com/…/the-oldest-linux-distro-just-got-a-ma…
1993s slackware
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m running Arch Linux in a 18 year old laptop. And I could and have run Debian in the very same laptop in the past.
I don’t get your point at all. If laptops were as repairable as desktops, we could continue using them for 15+ years.
TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net 8 months ago
I have a CR48 from 2010 that is running arch linux, is slow but completely workable.