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Community member "MySelf" has posted about these computers. It involves swapping parts (wifi?). Here are some of his posts, more or less verbatim:
The best currently available free software compatible laptop (BIOS, WiFi, GPU, etc.) is the Chromebook Pixel as released by Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook_Pixel
Here are the instructions on how to install GNU/Linux on it:
http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel%5flinux.txt
It has also an all-aluminium encasing as required by you. A nice video presenting this device can be found here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-XTpdDDXiU
Free Software compatible laptop?
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/free-software-compatible-laptop-0
coreboot and SeaBios
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/acer-c7-chromebook-updates
x86 models only; Trisquel does not support ARM processors
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-samsung-chromebook
