[ZeroGravitas]

What you say appears to be true, yet quite misleading since there's a simple process, provided by Google and built into the device, for flashing the BIOS (or at least there was on the Series 5 Chromebooks):

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...

[WiseWeasel]

Ah, thanks for the clarification. That'll learn me to parrot information from random people.