The Chromebooks are not trashed, they are simply re-installed with Linux and have their batteries removed so they can rest in racks for long-term testing.
tl,dr; There aren't enough reliable ARM servers yet, so for developing Linaro (optimized release of gcc), they use Chromebooks.
The Chromebooks are not trashed, they are simply re-installed with Linux and have their batteries removed so they can rest in racks for long-term testing.
tl,dr; There aren't enough reliable ARM servers yet, so for developing Linaro (optimized release of gcc), they use Chromebooks.