I want to recommend Chromebooks to people or buy them for family members, but the 4 years of support is <i>way too short</i>. I think it should 6 or 7. If Google is serious about competing against Windows on the desktop, then it needs to do that. I don&#x27;t care what their excuses are for not pushing it longer than 4 years. It needs to happen. Period.<p>I also hope that Google re-focuses its efforts on pushing more ARM-based Chromebooks into the market. The latest chips are significantly more powerful than Intel&#x27;s Atom based chips, and the most high-end ones are very close or equal to Core M, for 1&#x2F;10 of the price (I wish I was exaggerating).<p>Microsoft failed in helping ARM compete against Intel, because Windows still depends too much on x86. Chrome OS doesn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s architecture agnostic, and it&#x27;s time to act like it. Yet, like 95% of the Chromebooks on the market are Intel-based, more than even Windows-based PCs (where there is a higher percentage of AMD-based machines). That&#x27;s unacceptable to me, and I will boycott Chromebooks until that changes as well.