Like Education, you can buy ‘fleet’ Chromebooks with pre-installed enterprise management systems. Today, business does much computing in the cloud – Office productivity., accounting, CRM, POS, and more. Windows and Mac do ti all Chromebooks in Business Chromebook – Microsoft 365 is web-based only. If you click the EdBuy link above and look at Windows and Mac devices, there is a handy “What can a device in this category do’. Many schools reject Chromebooks because they don’t have sufficient Wi-Fi and Internet bandwidth to use online Apps. Typically, Chromebooks are a fleet of shared devices where a student logs in to any device in a computer lab. NSW T4L (Technology 4 learning) has a segment on Chromebooks purchased via EdBuy (you cannot bring your own – refer to page 32) with the Google Education suite and Classroom management tools pre-installed. Google, the maker of ChromeOS, says they have been used in schools for over a decade. Many parents are lured by the lower cost and the lack of a salesperson’s understanding of Chromebooks in Education. Myth #1 Chromebooks may be a new way of computing, but they don’t replace the tried and true ways at all Chriomebook start screen. Otherwise, you can access any online Apps via the internet and Chrome OS (really Chrome Browser), so you can use online versions of Office 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook etc.). These are from Google Play Store (Select Chromebook section). The number of Chrome Apps that work offline are not extensive but growing.Ĭhrome OS can also run some Android Apps (runs an emulation of Android in Chrome OS) that is not as fast, compatible, or necessarily fits the 16:9 screen as a smartphone or tablet running Android. They primarily use Apps from the Chrome Web Store, and you should fully explore that to see if your needs are met. Today they can do some edge computing (on the device) and support some local storage. The wrong circumstances are if you are a typical user and expect it to substitute for a Windows or Mac computer.Ĭhromebooks started as cloud devices built around Google’s Cloud Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Google Drive, Chrome Browser, G-Suite, etc.).
The right circumstances are as a light user not wedded to Windows or Mac.
With the recent TV saturation advertisement campaign, you may be considering one. In the wrong use circumstances, they are a disaster. Chromebooks in the right use circumstances are great.
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