Chromebooks are uninterested in being handled like second-class voters.

Over the past decade, the builders of ChromeOS have tried to conform the running machine with options that would put it extra on par with macOS and Home windows. Google has been pushing Chromebooks as enterprise machines, touting the purported simplicity and safety advantages in their pared down running machine.

HP’s new Elite Dragonfly Chromebook represents a ChromeOS software driven to the boundaries, from its look to its elements.

The pc comes dressed like a few of HP’s maximum coveted enterprise machines and with as much as a twelfth Gen Intel Core i7 CPU with Intel vPro enhance. Efficiency and magnificence are in a category significantly upper than what many recall to mind once they recall to mind Chromebooks.

However whilst it is appropriate for enterprise customers with easy, web-focused wishes by myself, its efficiency does not equivalent Home windows machines in the similar worth vary.

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With guarantees of business-class efficiency, the Elite Dragonfly Chromebook is among the most costly Chromebooks to be had, at neatly over $1,000 with maxed-out specifications. After all, there are nonetheless Chromebooks to be had for a couple of hundred greenbacks, however with a rising passion in pushing Chromebooks as fleet-ready undertaking machines, eventual gaming gadgets, and ultraportables with flexible shape elements, there are already a number of Chromebooks within the Dragonfly Chromebook’s elite worth category.

Here is what you’ll be able to get specs-wise from different dear Chromebooks when configured in a similar fashion to our evaluation device and in accordance with what is readily to be had as of this writing. Word that our configuration is not a particular SKU however was once relatively configured on HP.com. You’ll be able to discover a identical SKU to my evaluation unit however with a 1920×1280 answer for $1,450.

One of the most Dragonfly Chromebook’s largest claims to reputation is its non-compulsory inclusion of Intel vPro. Amongst Chromebooks, solely the ThinkPad C14 stocks this feature. vPro enhance is helping promote machines to IT departments, because it allows faraway control of the gadgets.

HP is especially within the balance that the platform guarantees, a spokesperson advised reviewers all through a briefing. vPro machines are meant to use an identical silicon throughout gadgets for so long as the software is bought. HP additionally pointed to vPro’s efficiency requirements and safety perks, in particular vPro’s overall reminiscence encryption.

The two-in-1 additionally helps 4G for cell running. 5G is purportedly coming q4 and would assist the Dragonfly stand out.

Further safety claims come from Google, which says its read-only OS, verified boot, and blocked executables cut back the desire for antivirus coverage. IT team of workers too can approve and block apps and extensions, remotely disable or wipe gadgets, and carry out background updates.