On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 9:33 PM Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> wrote:

And now for the third time around, it seems since this tool is for
creating recovery images of existing systems, I noticed that Google
has itself there, in this case Chromebook CR-48 for example. Isn't
that one an internal reference system not designed for retail
purposes? Oh and there are two others there as well.

I'm not familiar with the tool that you mentioned, but Cr-48 was the very first Chromebook. You're correct that it wasn't available for retail, however it was distributed publicly for evaluation purposes in anticipation of the next round of Chromebooks a few months later. I guess one could call it brutalist in its design - no frills and designed to put the "browser as the OS" concept front-and-center without distractions. The full line-up can be seen here: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/