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“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Remontoire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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No security or feature updates, but selling as "new." I guess they need to switch to Linux if able..

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[–] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, though I thought that all ChromeOS devices could be bootloader unlocked.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That could very well be the case and I could be wrong. I kind of operated under the assumption that Chromebooks are heavily locked down.