“it runs a custom operating system called SpaceOS, which is a built on top of Google’s ChromiumOS (the open source version of the software that’s runs on Chromebooks)”
So $2,000 for hardware that’s a brick in 5 years… nice!
"And that software runs on hardware that’s… basically what you’d expect from a decent smartphone. The Spacetop G1 features a Qualcomm Snapdragon QCS8550 processor, 16GB of LPDDR5 memory, and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
With Adreno 740 graphics and a Hexagon NPU, Sightful says the system supports up to 48 TOPS of total AI performance… which would be more impressive if Qualcomm hadn’t just launched its Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips which deliver 45 TOPS using just the NPU, while also offering CPU and graphics performance that are said to be competitive with Intel, AMD, and Apple processors."
Hmmm… not that you’d still WANT to be running that hardware in 2 years, much less 5…
“it runs a custom operating system called SpaceOS, which is a built on top of Google’s ChromiumOS (the open source version of the software that’s runs on Chromebooks)”
So $2,000 for hardware that’s a brick in 5 years… nice!
https://promevo.com/blog/chrome-os-expiration#:~:text=Does ChromeOS expire%3F,support will not be provided.
"And that software runs on hardware that’s… basically what you’d expect from a decent smartphone. The Spacetop G1 features a Qualcomm Snapdragon QCS8550 processor, 16GB of LPDDR5 memory, and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
With Adreno 740 graphics and a Hexagon NPU, Sightful says the system supports up to 48 TOPS of total AI performance… which would be more impressive if Qualcomm hadn’t just launched its Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips which deliver 45 TOPS using just the NPU, while also offering CPU and graphics performance that are said to be competitive with Intel, AMD, and Apple processors."
Hmmm… not that you’d still WANT to be running that hardware in 2 years, much less 5…
The five year policy is for ChromeOS, not ChromiumOS. ChromiumOS-based devices may have more or less support.
But why not just use Linux and get decades of updates?
Yeah, the developer of the device might drop it in 2 years