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Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste

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Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste

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Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year ago

cross-posted to:
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Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste.

Educators say the simple laptops are no longer a good deal because once they reach their expiration dates they have no second life.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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Planned Obsolescence through Software. Nice! Why even build Hardware that fails when you can have perfectly fine Hardware that is Software locked.

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