PDF] report, pointing a finger at Google for enabling Chromebooks that “aren’t designed to last. PIRG did praise Google's standardization of Chromebook chargers, but when it comes to the "typical repair, you need to replace 50 percent of the device and chuck it," Jeannie Crowley, director of technology and innovation for the Scarsdale, New York Public School District, said in the report. “We have piles, hundreds of Chromebooks, and it's so frustrating because I can't just take a key off one,” Crowley says in the report