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		aikah on April 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $149 Chromebooks > - Most Chromebooks are freely bootloader unlocked, allowing any operating system to be loaded on them. So do most Windows Notebooks. I just bought one recently at 250$, installed Linux. so there is nothing special about chromebooks in this regard.

russjr08 on April 1, 2015 [–]

They weren't saying such.

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

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