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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 27 2019, @02:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the can-it-run-Linux...standalone? dept.

Dell Latitude Brings Chromebooks to the Enterprise

Dell today announced the aptly named Dell Latitude Chromebook Enterprise line, featuring a laptop and a 2-in-1 device. The PC vendor has partnered with Google to accompany the new Chromebook Enterprise program, which is meant to bring Chrome OS to business customers.

Chromebooks historically appealed primarily to the low end of the market. There are some exceptions--most of which came from Google itself--but the category has mostly been positioned as a way to handle basic tasks without breaking the bank. The products have also been popular with the education market, so it makes sense for Google to go after enterprise customers next, many of which are looking for the same cheap-but-capable devices.

[...] On to the devices themselves. They don't technically have the same name: the notebook is the Dell Latitude 5400 Chromebook Enterprise; the 2-in-1 is the Dell Latitude 5300 2-in-1 Chromebook Enterprise, (which just rolls off the tongue, right?). A Dell representative told us that these models were chosen as they make the most sense in terms of building popularity for Latitude Chromebooks, and future models could be added. Aside from the obvious difference in form factor, the devices are largely similar, with the option of 8th Gen Intel Core i3, i5, i7 or Celeron processors, up to 1TB of onboard storage and up to 32GB memory.

Also at Google.

See also: Google and Dell team up to take on Microsoft with Chromebook Enterprise laptops

Previously: Google Announces Chrome Enterprise Subscription Service


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday August 27 2019, @03:50PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 27 2019, @03:50PM (#886146) Journal

    Yes, I am looking at you! Microsoft!

    Like IBM before you, who didn't take these "toy" microcomputer things seriously, I sincerely hope that Microsoft utterly dismisses Chromebooks as not serious.

    Chromebooks run this 'toy' operating system (Linux). And chromebooks are "crippled" by security measures. So secure as to not be useful. The Android it runs is heavily sandboxed. Crostini (allowing you to run Linux apps) is heavily secured. The Crostini blogs, reddit etc, are interesting to read. First, they create a VM. But they write their own VM because other VMs have more features than Google needs, have a bigger attack surface area, and are written in C / C++. Google's VM has only the minimal features needed and is written in a memory safe language. Then within that VM, is a minimal Linux that only runs LXD containers. An LXD container then offers a Linux userland including GUI. The bits to support GUI, sound, USB access, filesystem access are replaced by special services that use mechanisms to talk to the underlying host Chrome OS.

    Everything from the UEFI / BIOS on up are as heavily locked down as Google can make it. Yet they keep the philosophy that you own your hardware if you want to compromise it deliberately. (like I do)

    Finally these 'toy' chromebooks don't have very good specs. Only 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD and tenth generation Core i7, etc. So like PCs to Mainframes before them, these pesky toy chromebooks will never compete with Genuine Microsoft notebooks.

    Never. Just close your eyes and ignore it. I'm sure it will just go away.

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