Need to get up to speed as quick as possible

When you don't have a domain, it's not so big of deal, but as soon as you have a domain those machines become a PITA.

True...sometimes I feel like doubling my rates of there are "homeless" editions of Windows to manage.
Always end up causing you extra time to deal with junk. Good example was last fall we took on a big fire equipment sales company, tons of sales people out there that never came to the office, had home editions of Windows on residential grade laptops from the prior tech, to remote into their terminal server to get access to Pulse 'n Macola. A couple of times needed local Administrator access to do "whatever" or the local user forgot their password or needed a reset, account didn't have local admin priv. Luckily we replaced with a proper fleet of biz grade Thinkpads with WinPro so didn't have to wrestle with them for long.

Or if they do work at the office...it's just so much easier to manage a fleet when it's a domain, push out printers, push out GPOs to control things, push out software, tie user accounts with O365 and/or other cloud services. The cost savings in "ease of management" easily wins over the little 99 dollar price diffy of the OS version.
 
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