Chromebooks for Staff

[Simon57]

Morning all 

 

Would really appreciate some advice on Chromebooks for staff - What are people purchasing- What kind of costs are they - What experiences are you finding? We need to replace a number of devices but i just can't find good devices with what i feel will have longevity. I don't feel overly confident buying devices with old processors and I also have the most ridiculous budget to do it from (I'm sure everyone experiences this too)

 

Welcome any feedback - And many thanks in advance!

[TheHyperTechie]

You will want Chromebook Plus models for staff. I haven't looked at pricing for a while from suppliers, but I think they range from anywhere between £4-500. We got these for some staff a while ago. Great laptops.

 

EDIT - If budgets are tight (understandably) we have used these for staff chromebooks as well. Despite the lower spec processor, they still perform very well, and we haven't had any complaints!

Edited Thursday at 07:47 by TheHyperTechie

[msi_school]

We use Chromebook plus devices and they are great, they do cost the same as a decent laptop so there is no initial cost saving but the the TCO is much lower.

 

We did run into issues with most Chromebook pluses being 16:10 and some of the staff hating this because it puts letterbox borders on the interactive screen especially if the initial slide is 16:9 where it does a double letterbox so you might want to test this out with the users before purchase.