I really do wish we could get away from the buy-and-throw-away mentality. We need to repair and reuse a lot more.
Anecdotally, I am writing this comment from a 7-year-old Chromebook. Owing to software updates, it’s not as snappy as it used to be (therein lies the irony), but it’s still usable up to its Linux container. The battery is dead but I don’t want to get rid of it because the screen is still nice and bright and the hardware build is otherwise fine.
I just wish, though, I could boot proper Linux off of it and I could upgrade memory and storage.
“I don’t know who makes the profit,” commented Che Min Tu, Lenovo senior vice president and group operations officer.
That sounds like a pro argument for Chromebooks lol
Probably they price them at a profit but then lose money from unsold inventory, so nobody really comes out ahead
Google makes the profit from selling the user’s data all throughout the locked down OS
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“I don’t know who makes the profit,” commented Che Min Tu, Lenovo senior vice president and group operations officer.
Tu further remarked that the laptop is not great from an environmental standpoint either – recycling its material won’t be easy, or cheap.
Tu said Lenovo was benefitting from its “China plus one” supply chain policy and was continuing to enhance its local manufacturing capability in India.
Lenovo’s sub-continental expansion could have easily gone wrong had India not paused a requirement that banned PC and server vendors who do not secure an import license.
The policy was intended to boost homemade tech and its “Made In India” campaign, but instead generated a backlash from manufacturers.
At Canalys EMEA Forum 2023 this October, another Lenovo vice president pledged the world would see AI PCs in the second half of next year and early 2025.
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Cheap laptops for the whole world ✅ Crippled by Google ❌
