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Re:$149 Chromebooks by aikah on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:18AM (#9302512)
> - Most Chromebooks are freely bootloader unlocked, allowing any operating system to be loaded on them.

So do most Windows Notebooks. I just bought one recently at 250$, installed Linux. so there is nothing special about chromebooks in this regard.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by russjr08 on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:43PM (#9306725)
They weren't saying such.

"So I fail to see how Chromebooks are 'more extremely locked down' than iDevices."

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