fellow chromebook users:
If you had a Chromebook, and Google locked your account. Does the scenario described in the article imply that you can no longer can log into your own laptop?
If you had a Chromebook, and Google locked your account. Does the scenario described in the article imply that you can no longer can log into your own laptop?
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en
If this scenario happens, you can think of it as Google terminating the lease early. No biggie.
There's a whole pile of AC700 Chromebooks around, with no upgrade path as far as I know, at least if you don't want to be p4wn3d.
Including AC700: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...
For a while, there were, but they disappeared, and now it's a web of 404s and obsolete documents. Most recommended chrubuntu, but (1) that relies on obsolete ChromeOS components, which introduce security issues (2) someone said that's now dead too.
I'll see if Chromium builds for it. Thanks for the pointer. There's a lot of AC700's out there.
Congratulations!
If the model number doesn't have a typo, it might be expired. Most of the ones not listed tend to be expired, and many vendors sell expired ones.
Oh ohs!
If so, you're in good company. Many less affluent, less educated families find themselves there. Some find they wasted $150 on a Chromebook which has a few months left, and some keep using it, and find their data held for a few grand in bitcoin.
Thanks Google!
But I suspect you have the CB514, not CB154, which IS listed, and which expires in 2024. If so, you've got almost four years left. Congratulations!
I guess it beats Android, where the same happens, only without the warning.