Hand on heart, this is the best Chromebook to date that Joe Osborne has ever used – or indeed paid for.
The Google Pixelbook is the best Chromebook ever made, but getting on the ground floor of this revolution is going to cost you dearly. Yet thanks to the Pixelbook’s 100 per cent Android app support, Google’s new Chrome launcher and a breathtaking new stylus experience – the price to entry is worth it. Oh, and the keyboard is stellar, too.
Inside you’re getting a seventh generation Kaby Lake Intel Core i5 CPU on both the entry-level 128GB and midrange 256GB options, each paired with 8GB of memory. A top-end 512GB option comes packing a Core i7 processor with 16GB of memory. All of these options are Intel’s low-power, low heat Y series chips, which means all of the Pixelbook models are fanless.
The Pixelbook is the beautiful result of years of work on Google’s part in refining a unified design across its hardware offerings, and could be seen as a coming of age for Google’s Chromebook design philosophy. From the brushed aluminium frame with flush edges to the rubberised palm rest and underside, every design element has achieved style and substance in equal measure.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Linux Format.
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