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In the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attacks, IT security has been bumped to priority number one for most organizations. Perfect for remote users, temporary employees, or simply budget-friendly hardware.

The simplicity, combined with the astonishingly low price tag, makes them perfect for everyone from Grandma who always forgets where “the internet” is, to a teen or college student checking Facebook and writing papers on Google Docs, to a mobile CTO who needs a highly portable and cost-effective device with remote access to a high-powered virtual or physical machine.įor building out a VDI or DaaS environment, they are an ideal mobile client device option that is cheap to buy and cheap to replace. No desktop, no local drive, just hardware and a browser. ChromeOS is a Linux-based operating system that uses the Google Chrome web browser as it’s primary user interface. Moreover, the ChromeOS platform offers a unique advantage over a Windows or MacOS client – security.Ī Chromebook is a small, light, laptop machine running ChromeOS. However, Chromebooks not only satisfy all the needs of the casual user or task worker for a fraction of the cost of a Windows or MacOS machine, they are also perfect client devices for users who need portable remote access to a high-powered (virtual or physical) desktop. In a market dominated by brand-name laptops with a four-figure sticker price, often with high-powered compute that is largely wasted on its most frequent end users (do we really need $1200 Facebook and email machines?), the humble Chromebook remains relatively unknown to the average non-techie user.