I've been using one of these for about a month and it's one of the best Chromebooks I've used and I've used 6 since 2014. While the cost is high it does include the $150 Chrome Enterprise license and 3 years Pro-Support. Mine came with USB-C charger.
I just bought a second hp x360 after my backup Acer R13 died on me. I purchased the first x360 for $450, less Best Buy rewards, and the latest one for $400, less Best Buy rewards. Both have cost me less than a single Pixelbook! I love my x360 in every way so when I had the chance to get a second one for even less than what I spent for my first one, I couldn't pass it up. These should last me for a very long time, and while I admit I will always lust after the newest, shiny toy, at my age I feel pretty good about owning two really great Chromebooks!
ChromeOS is not for Chrome Browsing anymore. People need to stop with that. I have to admit this is Google fault, they start the marketing for these like that. But since 2016 with the Android applications compatibility the perspective of browser only is dead. This is a full fledged laptop for students, internet consumption and more: Frontline workers and better for IT PROFESSIONALS who search for a good Linux experience. All open source Linux for desktop/laptop sucks in my opinion except "DELL XPS 13 Developer Edition" on Ubuntu OS 18.04. It's really not that expensive actually this is a mid price laptop. As a developper I always search for good Linux capable machines and Chrome OS with CROSTINI (Linux VM/Container) can really benefit me with this 16/32GB of RAM, Intel i7 CPU and up to 1TB of SSD. Google release a open source project called KUBERNETES for managing and orchestrate Linux/Docker containers and actually there is a lot of IT professionals like me that search the best machines to handle these workloads locally to validate conformity before deployment of the applications. Google really need to rebrand ChromeOS/Chrome Enterprise/ChromeBook/ChromeBox/ChromeBase. Yes < $300 are for students and people that only browse online. These type of machine are for IT PROFESSIONALS: Developers, Operationals, Cloud Engineers, etc... It's a Dell with IT provisioning capabilities guys understand it. People see MacBook Pro so they think only these are real machine SMH. MacBooks are really cool but those failing keyboards are a shame so I really hope these ChromeOS gets always better. The standard of expensive Apple machines or old manual Linux installation need to stop in profit of these mid price ChromeOS device. I need this.
Most of the issues you mention are just standard enterprise Dell items. So they use the standard charger but they do have a USB-C docking station. Most enterprise units use standard charge cables rather than USB-C.
@@RyanDuffy I agree that it's a little over-priced. I suppose it's because it checks so many boxes; it's a convertible, it has a Full HD IPS display with thin bezels (which I agree with the reviewer in that at 13.3 inches it's almost retina-like), it has a sturdy/aluminum build, it's LTE-enabled, it runs on an 8th-gen Intel Core i5 processor, it's equipped with flash storage (maybe SSD over eMMC, and I anticipate that it's at least 128 GB) not to mention some of the enterprise software features it sports. Also, I don't believe it was mentioned, but the $1,400-1,500 price tag might include a 3-year extended warranty (similar to that offered to Dell's Precision line customers) which is virtually unlimited (covering accidental damage, etc). Still, it does make it a tough buying decision when you can get something like a nearly maxed out (albeit refurbished) Microsoft Surface Book for around the same price.
It is exoensive because it is just old Dell Latitude e5300, a high end office laptop Renée with chrome os. And what I know it's first line when Dell use USB-C with display port (i think There's is no Power Delivery) and it had I5 8th gen, so...
The barrel charger is a corp standard. Dell and Lenovo use the same one for compatibility reasons. Most corporate meeting rooms will be equipped with this charger. Plus if you forget to bring it on a business trip someone else will most likely have one. This was standardized back before powered USB was an option and it eliminates the problem with consumer grade windows machines where there are 20 million different power brick connection styles.
Lenovo hasn’t used barrel style chargers for several generations. They moved to a squarish proprietary tip for a while and my 6th generation X1 Carbon uses USB-C.
My 5th gen X1 Carbon also uses USB-C and I personally wont buy anything that charges with any different interface. USB-C makes life so easier, even in travels, to carry a single charger to charge both your phone & your PC. Makes you stop looking for chargers around the house as well.
Problem for all these high end chrome books is the auto update support limit, given they are the same as non enterprise ones. I play with an Acer chromebook for business, it has core I 3 and 8 gb ram , computing power leaving latest chromebooks running arm level cpus to dust. But it has the same end of line support as models 2/5 of its price... so what is the point of getting high end ones, if support doesn’t last longer and clearly the computing power inside these higher end can last a lot longer than less powerful models. I guess enterprise ones or business ones NEED to have 7 years support instead of 5.
Not going to see pixels, yes, but does that mean objects are going to be rendered too small? Even with scaling options, I recall that being a slight issue with some of the previous 13.3 sweet-spot Chromebooks of the past. Either way, this has to be my new crouton workhorse. Move over hp x360...
"Designated for enterprise use" The word you're after there my friend is managed. 😁 It might be geared towards enterprise, but it's still just a Chromebook, which if it isn't managed and devices then configured at the Admin Console, behaves just like a consumer device.
The device itself though has characteristics which typically align with a commercial device. More port options, upgrade able & field serviceable RAM/SSD/Battery, as well as pre-OS HW diagnostics. If you look at typical Chromebooks being offered "for Enterprise use" they're more like prosumer devices which don't have those qualities.
Can someone confirm that would the ChromeOS consider files and videos and pictures and folders on the extended micro SD card in Chromebook as cache and might delete them randomly so it is not a reliable approach to save any files on Chromebook, even in an extended micro SD card?
Hi Chrome Unboxed and members of the channel, I recent obtain and R&D machine (Dell Lattitude 5300 2-in-1), the transition from classic WindowsOS to ChromeOS has been wonderful and easy experience but I need help with something please? As tech professional, I like to keep with standard product lines and with ChromeOS within Google software apps, can someone please recommend a good screenshot app for the ChromeOS or is there a hidden command like with restart of PC via chrome://restart that can access hidden apps&functions? I could not find any Google Apps for screenshots. I normally during tech support calls like to give screenshots to users/business to assist and resolve request also during technical document design. Please help???
Man, even though I truly appreciate your reviews, you've just lost all the IT or IT-aware audience. You've might be better off doing some homework before going in front of the camera ;-)
Greed, that is why. A beautiful Windows laptop in the enterprise with a decent 1080p screen is around 900 bucks... And ChromeOS is not even a real OS just a shell that runs the Chrome browser on top of Linux and now Google has enabled Android and Linux on these environments but who would EVER buy this? They're all ending up in the landfill.
