The article doesn't mention used chromeboxes. They're ordinary PCs in everything except that Google locks them in order to force users into ChromeOS, but most o

The article doesn't mention used chromeboxes. They're ordinary PCs in everything except that Google locks them in order to force users into ChromeOS, but most of them can be easily liberated and repurposed. For further info: https://mrchromebox.tech/ https://mrchromebox.tech/ Older models are very easy to unlock and their SSD+RAM aren't soldered, so they're easily expandable too. They're also excellent as media players in their stock configuration (4GB RAM,16 GB SSD). 2 years ago I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 4 based Kodi box to a used CN62 Chromebox which I paid roughly half of the RPi cost (and runs circles wrt performance and stability around it) and never looked back. Now I own several of them, mostly HP, Asus, Acer; unlocked all of them and installed different Linux distros with full success.