Google Pixelbook: Pen support and phone tethering could seal the Chrome OS deal
from PC world 05 October indexed on 05 October 2017 16:01Meet Pixelbook, the laptop that legitimizes Google's Chromebook Pixel legacy. When Google released the first Chromebook Pixel in 2013, many tech journalists (myself included) saw the Chrome OS-based laptop as more of a fanciful intellectual proposition than a viable consumer product. It was a halo device that illustrated what a Chromebook could be—in a broad, sweeping romantic sense—if designed with complete disregard for consumer pricing sensitivity. Indeed, would anyone spend almost $1,500 on a computer that can't even run Windows applications? The world generally scoffed—and then scoffed again when Google updated the Pixel in 2015. But now we have the Google Pixelbook, which starts at $999 for a Core i5/8GB RAM/128GB SSD config, and goes up to $1,649 for a Core i7/16GB RAM/512GB SSD config. (For full Pixelbook pricing, release date, specs and more, read our news story.) The pricing is just as steep as before, and the machine still doesn't support Windows apps or PC gaming. But thanks to a handful of intriguing features, the Pixelbook suddenly seems like a viable first choice for one's primary computer, and no longer a weird curiosity that you buy simply because you're dumb, rich, and curious. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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