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Lemmy predicts: Chromebooks will become the new Thinkpads (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Maybe this is a hot take. However, a lot of the Chromebooks that were deployed by schools during covid are build like tanks while being super lightweight and having great battery life. Meanwhile the old thinkpads are 10 years old and are probably starting to wear down. Many Chromebooks support coreboot these days so theoretically they have the potential to be more private and secure. Some of them are also arm which means that they are more efficient from an architecture perspective.

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[–] Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pfffft...the hell they are.

First off, so few models of Chromebooks even allow you to bother sideloading or outright install a Linux distro over ChromeOS. Eventually, Google cut that stuff out so now almost every Chromebook now won't allow you to do that without going through some Developer Mode loop that makes you think you'll get by.

Secondly, Chromebooks are just e-waste. That's their design. They're only made to be online-only "laptops" with just an expiration date attached to them, that date being how long Google wants to bother supporting it with security updates provided something doesn't break down first within the first two years.

Thinkpads have more longevity, they're built well and they're meant to go the distance. Chromebooks has been and will continue to be a joke.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

You haven't scene how tuff some of these devices are. You can get them for cheap and they last all day and can be heavily abused.

Maybe comparing them to thinkpads is a stretch but I could see a use as a travel device.