Let's save money and not fire people for no good reason???
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Hp announced professional grade laptops starting at $400 price range.
Apple laptop starts at $2400.00
Cisco executives have a partnership with Apple, so they spend the extra $2000.
They don't care, Cisco had deep pockets.
If you can't do everything from a browser, you're NOT an Engineer and don't belong in the Engineering field.
Chromebook's security paradigm is rooted in Google Chromebook Enterprise.
Some Engineers at Cisco already use it.
But as usual management is against it.
- Firefox now runs on Chromebook.
- Both Dell & HP offer enterprise grade Chromebooks and can ship overnight.
- I used to support my own MacBook.
- Everything I do is in a browser.
- Apple switched from Intel, my apps no longer work.
- Chromebooks cost a lot less than Mac.
Having lived through the user-driven MacBook Pro adoption from Lenovo (and Toshiba), I can't imagine that there would be a big push to Chromebook for IT to support or engineering to adopt. The Chromebook platform is just too underpowered for most enterprise applications that are tied to Windows or OS X. If the OP is fresh out of college and has spent their life using a Chromebook throughout their high school and college education, then I can see why there would be interest in keeping with what's familiar - but the Chromebook platform is just too much of a silo to be effective in a mostly engineering centric environment.
Mac switched to an ARM processor.
And Cisco hasn't deployed any Macs with ARM processors yet. Too many of the tools we need to use are not yet supported by ARM.
And for the OP, how is choosing to use a non-standard device within the enterprise going to save money? Much less increase productivity?
If--really when--issues occur with your non-standard laptop, where are you going to get support? The helpdesk? They're not trained to deal with Chromebooks. There's no documentation for them to refer to. Until someone decides to make the Chromebook a standard offering and is prepared to train the helpdesk, and to pay someone to write all their support documentation, the cost of that support far exceeds the cost savings of the hardware.
Oh, you say you'll just support yourself, you don't need the helpdesk. What are you going to do when your Chromebook has a hardware issue or if you drop and break it? There's no supply of spare Chromebooks to give you a hot swap while your broken one is repaired. How many of your man hours will be lost waiting on it to be fixed because there's no pool of hot swap units available. At my salary, I could buy a new one on a week's pay, so you either waste a week waiting on it to get fixed or you waste a week's pay buying a new Chromebook. Where's the savings?
It sounds like you'd be doing the majority of your work in a browser. You'd have to use the Office 365 suite via a browser. You'd have to get Firefox installed for those internal sites that don't work in Chrome. I don't know your job role, but none of my developer tools will run under ChromeOS.
Has IT even created any of the internal apps like AnyConnect, Duo Health check, Webex, etc. that will run on ChromeOS? Can a Chromebook even meet the requirements to be a "Cisco Trusted Device"?
That enough of a justification for you for your manager to say no?
Oh yes do save Cisco $250, it will halt layoffs on the spot. Besides, you will actually cost more in lost productivity. Cisco IT is a big Microsoft shop. PowerPoint and Outlook is what’s in your toolbox.
Dell offers an Enterprise grade Chromebook.
Mac switched to an ARM processor.
Hmmm.... Why not?
Really? Chromebook?!?
Chromebooks are too expensive these days.