Google To Lease Chrome Laptops for $20/Month [REPORT]
Google will begin leasing Chrome laptops for $20 per month in a “student package” that includes both hardware and access to online services, a senior Google executive has reportedly told Forbes.
The report aligns with earlier rumors that Google would begin offering Chrome OS-based notebooks for between $10 and $20 per month this summer. The official announcement is expected to hit the wire sometime Wednesday.
“Small and medium-sized businesses are banging on our doors to get something like this,” the executive said, suggesting that the “student package” initiative could be a way for Google to test the waters before releasing a comparable offering for the enterprise.
Google already offers businesses access to its online suite of productivity apps, which includes a word processor, spreadsheet application and calendar, for $50 per year. Perhaps the tech giant will bundle the hardware and software offerings for enterprise users in the near future.
No further details about the hardware or contracts that may be associated with the lease are available at this time.
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I think you may mis spoke. Google Apps is $50 a year per user, not per month as you printed.
I did. Corrected. Thank you!
It is $50 a year per user.
it’d be interesting to see the take up rate of this product especially after the scrutinizing of security problems after the leak of information following Sony’s network being hacked.
a few years ago nobody would have considered Google offering a whole operating system for free and the very thought of Apple doing a phone was really alien to a lot of us… who has the money and this is a good way of catching people early… in the same way banks target student campuses with free goodies and exhibition stands in freshers week because once you with your bank you hardly ever change… I suspect Google are thinking the same thing
awesome