ASUS Chromebook Plus Enterprise CB54 Intel Core Ultra 5 115U 35.6 cm (14") Touchscreen WQXGA 8 GB LPDDR5x-SDRAM 256 GB SSD Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) ChromeOS Silver, UK

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The ASUS Chromebook Plus Enterprise CB54 is a “workhorse, not a toy” Chromebook, and that £788.65 ex-VAT price puts it firmly in the “make sure this is the right platform” bracket. If your staff live in ChromeOS-friendly apps (web apps, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 in the browser, VDI where appropriate, simple internal tools), this is a sensible, manageable fleet device: it’s built for enterprise deployment, stays fast with normal business use, and the touchscreen/14-inch size makes it genuinely usable for meetings, forms, and training sessions. For teams that want low admin overhead and consistent updates without paying laptop prices across the board, it’s a good fit.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it blindly. If you need heavyweight Windows software, local-only desktop apps, or lots of offline workflows that don’t translate well to ChromeOS, you’ll feel the limitations quickly—and then the price starts to look less “value” and more “premium mistake.” Also, 8GB of memory is fine for typical browser/workflow work, but if you expect multitasking with many tabs, thicker web apps, or long offline stretches, you should sanity-check whether your users’ patterns match Chromebook reality. Bottom line: buy it for organisations standardising on ChromeOS and browser-first work; avoid it if your job roles are app-dependent on the traditional Windows ecosystem.