Recommendations for business laptop

[jellmoo]

Its not like a Windows license is expensive, especially for Enterprise clients who can buy blocks of hundreds or thousands of keys. As for performance.. its usualky native hardware (most Chromebooks that Enterprise is looking at are running Intel, usually i3s and i5s, so itd be fine for most enterprise apps which arent usually hardware punishing - just proprietary/Windows only.

Enterprise customers arent buying 200$ Mediatek powered Chromebooks. Theyre spending money on higher-end SKUs (which are still cheaper than Windows machines) and are using ChromeOS for ease of management and IT support. (Enterprise ChromeOS can be managed remotely and en masse easily).

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I was wrong, it was Parallels:

https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/chrome/

Huh... It still strikes me as a bit of a weird solution overall though. You still need to buy a high end Chromebook with an i5 or i7 and a minimum of 8GB of RAM, use a Windows license, pay $70/year per user for the software, and ultimately lose some of the ease of admin benefit of the Chromebook since your IT team still needs to support Windows which could prove troublesome since not all software loves running in a VM environment.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I can see use cases for it and it's really cool to see solutions like this pop up, but it does seem like a lot of time and effort just to fin d workarounds to make the setup viable.

[Iamanerd]

A little late but consider getting an off-lease/refurbished business grade laptop like a Dell latitude/HP Elitebook/Lenovo Thinkpad/ Dell Precision etc. You can grab a nice Dell Latitude 5490 with an 8th gen i5/i7, 16GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD for the $400 range all day.

[thelawnking]

Any kind of ThinkPad should work.

[GaryPerry]

It seems to me that it is best for you to consult a specialist. Tell us about what actions you will perform using a laptop and those who understand will help you solve this issue.