The Pixelbook comes home, jumping headlong into Google's ecosystem
from PC world 04 October indexed on 05 October 2017 4:01Google's Pixelbook says the Chromebook Pixel isn't dead—it's part of the family. The Pixelbook, announced Wednesday at Google's hardware event in San Francisco, is the third generation of Google's premium Chromebook Pixel. Up to now, the laptops lived apart from Google's other products, isolated in Chrome OS. The Pixelbook is the first Chromebook that's tied closely to major parts of Google's ecosystem, such as Google Assistant and the Google Play Store. It shows new potential for Chromebooks, and new freedom for Google products formerly stuck on small, limited smartphones and tablets. “The laptop experience hasn't changed that much, but how we use technology definitely has,” said Google's Matt Voukun at the event. “We use tons of apps every day, and we're constantly jumping between our phone and laptop and tablet to get things done.” Voukun introduced the Pixelbook as a solution to this tension: “We've worked hard to combine the most helpful parts of a laptop, a tablet, and smartphone.” To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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