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Needlessly provocative title/link bait.

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.



I like how any interesting article I've seen about Chromebooks in the last year or two starts with removing Chrome OS from the machines.


Agreed. I use an HP Chromebook 14 with an Ubuntu chroot as my main machine, and I love the Chromebook, but I have no love for Chrome OS.

It's just too damn limited to be appreciable.




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