No more Chromebases?

[Michelle Mears]

I am so sad that no manufacturer or licensee of Chrome is making Chromebases anymore.  This is what we have used for nearly 10 years for public access computing.  One power cord, less heat generated, worked with our management/authentication platform, and never had a lick of trouble except when Google decided to implement AUE dates and stop updating these machines.  I bet ours would work for another 6 years or more if we could keep them updated.

 

So I guess I need to look at Chromeboxes and separate monitors.  Does anyone want to share what monitor brand they are using and some kind of mounting bracket to keep it all contained in the back?  I just find it annoying that I can’t buy the configuration that I want.  I have given up on the add-in-one that Acer was supposed to already have on the market.  I thought that would have been the best of both worlds.

 

Michelle

 

Michelle R. Mears, MSLIS, PhD
Library Director
Rolling Hills Consolidated Library
1912 N. Belt Hwy.
St. Joseph, MO 64506
816.205.7000 office direct
816.646.8621 mobile
mme...@rhcl.org
https://rhcl.org

 

[Lucien Kress]

We found the chromebases interesting, too, but our technicians seemed to prefer the chromeboxes overall. We've used the Asus Chromebox 5 (which seems to have been superceded by the 5a) and the Lenovo Chromebox Micro, with some preference for the Asus. We've used them with both the proprietary mount and a generic VESA extender, the latter of course being more monitor-agnostic. The Lenovos were a little flaky in their ability to power the monitor, and I think that was the main reason we preferred the Asus.

Lucien

Lucien Kress IT Director 360-906-4910 Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries – Operations Center 2018 Grand Blvd, Vancouver, WA 98661

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