Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home from Monday, August 26, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Google and Dell have teamed up to produce the latitude lineup of enterprise grade

Chromebooks.

These new laptops come with 8th gen Intel core I-7

CPU's are the first Chromebooks to offer up to 32

gigabytes of DDR for RAM and SSDs of up to one

terabyte making these surely the most powerful Chromebooks ever available.

They can also be configured with LTE with connections of up to 450 megabits per second.

So again, these are serious Chromebooks

met for serious enterprise work.

And to top all that off, Dell and Google

are trying to make this palatable to your enterprises IT folk, coding and gadget.

What makes these different from the existing Chromebooks that your organization can already hand out is the behind-the-scenes stuff catering

to your IT department's needs. Businesses currently using Chromebooks can add the new Chrome Enterprise

upgrade and make use of the new Google Admin console for

Chrome OS which Google says provides 10 times faster load times. This will allow

admins to enable a managed Linux environment on Chromebooks which will let them

grant access to specific users as well as offer VPN support for internal files.

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