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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
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday August 27 2019, @03:59PM (2 children)
Chromebooks win in education because.
At the low end, they are cheap. Easily replaced if lost, stolen or eaten.
Not only students, but staff can use them. Low end chromebooks do not run any local software, just a glorified web browser. Everything is in the cloud. Which is fine in a school, and at home. The school can even run their own servers that offer cloud based course ware and other applications just for chromebooks. Staff can used cloud based grading, student information, student nutrition, curriculum, attendance and other software. Access to these services can be tied to authorized chromebooks.
Schools can "join" a chromebook to their group. Sort of like Microsoft group policy. The district can then locate or remote wipe the devices. Push down updates. Etc. Possibly at some point soon, push local applications under Android or Crostini to the devices.
It's not really the way that old-school developers like or think of things. (like myself, get off my lawn, except that for my entire career I've tried to pay attention to how things might be in five to ten years, and why. Economics. Convenience (which is just economics in another form). Security (which is another form of economics).
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 27 2019, @05:25PM (1 child)
I tried to grok your comment, but all I get is:
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(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday August 27 2019, @08:04PM
Speech therapists do not like dotted pears.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.