[boredishBoi]

Actually MacBooks get 6/7 years from when Apple stops selling them. In contrast, the timer starts as soon as the first Chromebook with that cpu is released. It was a nasty surprise when I found that out

[choward]

That is terrible. So they'll never create a device that is good enough that they'll sell for for 6 years unless they sell something they don't support.

[pgeorgi]

Or extend the support: https://9to5google.com/2019/11/05/google-chromebooks-extende...

Other than that, few vendors sell 6 year old computers. Since Apple is often put up as model company here: 2013 had the iPhone 5s which was sold until early 2016, and the end-2013 MacBook Pro (based on Haswell) which was replaced by its successor in 2014 (based on Haswell-Refresh).

[daemin]

I think the point was that the product was so minimal and cheap that you would throw it away and get a new one like a phone.

[kulahan]

Correct. That's why the vast majority of them are ~$250 or less

[jiqiren]

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 It's ~7 years of hardware parts availability. Software is around 7-10 years.

[JoBrad]

Made me laugh for some reason.

> Monster-branded Beats products are considered obsolete regardless of when they were purchased.

[criddell]

I didn't realize that. When I think about how many schools have bought racks of Chromebooks and how long they keep them in use I realize that there are lots of kids out there using insecure machines. And all of them have cameras and microphones. Yikes!