The OS is in a sort of protective bubble, separate from the apps. What makes the OS stateless is that the OS itself doesn’t change as apps are installed or user settings are changed. In other words, a stateless OS still saves my files and settings and apps I installed and what I was doing after I power it off. To be clear, a stateless OS is not non-persistent.
Stateless OSįirst, you probably know that Chromebooks run the Chrome OS. In fact it could be the ultimate enterprise device. And in doing so, I realized something: The Chromebook has the potential to be huge in the enterprise. The point is that the Pixelbook was so good, I actually tried to use it as a real laptop, Lesak-style. But Windows and Mac users equally don’t need that hardware just to run a browser and Office either. In fact the Pixelbook is the best hardware of any laptop that I’ve ever used, and I’ve been a Mac user since 2006 and was a ThinkPad guy the decade before that.ĭo I need that hardware just to run Chrome? Of course not. The Pixelbook’s specs are what you'd expect in any 1700 dollar laptop: i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD, 2400x1600 display, metal case, backlit keys, flips over backwards into a tablet, pen, touch screen, 4 mics, all day battery, giant multi-touch trackpad, etc, etc. (No Johnnie Walker Red in the Madden house.) I ended up with a Google Pixelbook that I paid about $1700 for.īefore you shout, “WHAT? 1700 dollars for a CHROMEBOOK? ARE YOU ON DRUGS?!?”, let me assure you this is not your kid’s Chromebook. As an unmarried child-free person, I naturally looked for the most expensive Chromebook I could find. I got a quick case of FOMO and I wanted to try one too. But here was a coworker of mine, working at a company where employees can literally use whatever device they want, using a Chromebook! On purpose! This was a surprise to me, since as far as I knew, Chromebooks were super-cheap devices for kids.
When the presentation was over, I went up to him and asked, “Dude, so what actual laptop is in your bag that you really use?” He said, “No, for real, I actually use a Chromebook." He did the entire presentation from a Chromebook, and made a comment to the audience about how it was his primary computing device. During my first week at VMware, I attended an event where my new colleague Matt Lesak spoke to an audience about VMware’s EUC strategy. Most readers know I took a break from the IT industry from mid-2016 until I started at VMware in early 2018.
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