There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Some of the chromebooks offered to schools dont come from google. Some go to an actual leasing company who then gets chromebooks, mainly from lenovo due to them being the biggest leasing business in the game. Ive seen my fair share of terrible chrome books, but there are definately schools who lease what is basically the chromebook equivalent to a thinkpad

    Souce: work in ewaste so i see what gets thrown out first hand.

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      1 year ago

      Totally - I’ve seen chromebooks that run fine, and it’s good to know that not all school districts are buying garbage machines. I was only speaking to my experience with my son’s, which was a Google branded chromebook - he got it roughly four years ago.