Community member "mYself" has posted about these computers. It involves swapping parts (wifi?).
The Chromebook Pixel is one of the most freedom-friendly computers currently available on the market (verify). It comes with a free BIOS, and free software friendly wifi card and GPU (verify).
On the other hand, Google distributes proprietary software, and promotes services-as-a-substitute-for-software.
Here are the instructions on how to install GNU/Linux on the Chromebook Pixel, if you decide to buy from Google.
http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel%5flinux.txt
Question: are all Chromebooks free-software-friendly? For each model -- what works, and what doesn't work?
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/does-trisquel-run-many-chromebooks
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
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