End of life policy for Chromebooks

agrinnall

DoaM wrote: »

In OP's case the model of Chromebook was already well-established (months or even years prior to OP's purchase, not days or weeks)..

Was it? According to Wikipedia the first Chromebooks went on sale in June 2011, so the OP's oldest one was only bought 9 months after that. While that is indeed 'months', don't you think it's feasible that an end of updates cycle hadn't been decided on that close to initial launch?

System

ruralrelic wrote: »

We have several chromebooks in our family, the oldest is a Samsung purchased in March 2012. Last few days we received notices from Google re end of life policy, and now to all intense and purposes that chromebook has died!

Has it? So it doesn't turn on, you can't go online, you can't use it? Or is it a case that you can but it's just not going to get any more updates?

Stuff breaks, the Chromebook dying was coincidental. Nobody anywhere on the internet has reported Chromebooks having a kill switch. 5 years for a budget laptop is quite good going so you've done well if its survived that long.