Updates through June 2028, you’ll have 6 more years of updates remaining (out of six years) which is about right for what Woot sells. After that date, no security updates / bug fixes / etc will be released for this device. ALL Chrome based devices have a limited ‘shelf life’ as, “All Chrome OS devices now receive regular upgrades for a minimum of six and a half years from when their chipset first appeared on the platform”
Normally I’d complain about the screen here, however, this has a 1080p screen. What I will complain about (and Woot can’t fix) is that it seems every time a ChromeBook has a 1080p screen the rest of the specs are overkill for a Chromebook. ChromeOS (or whatever it’s called) is a very lightweight OS. This processor is major overkill. But it is what it is.
Woot Staff: The End Of Life date should be at the top of the specs; it’s the single most important spec when buying a Chromebook/box ESPECIALLY considering Chrome based devices have a limited update lifetime (6 years from the first date of manufacture). I see the information in blue in the specs and while that’s a start, the information is still at the bottom of the specs.
I’ve been using a Lenovo i3 Ideapad as my main computer since January, 2017. I have i5 PCs that sit idle. The EOL on my Ideapad comes up soon, as the build date was early 2016. The real knock against the Chromebook was that you need internet access for it to function to full capacity. Today, virtually everyone is cellular savvy and can create a hotspot or tether to the internet with their Chromebook via their phone. In the past the SSD was tiny; not so on the Flex and with four times the ram of early Chromebooks, the Flex flies.