Chromebook Pixel review

Review of the Google Chromebook Pixel by David Pierce from The Verge.

With its amazing, high-resolution touchscreen display, sleek profile, good keyboard, and complete dependence on the web-centric Chrome OS, the Google Chromebook Pixel is a unique laptop. Add to that a premium price starting at $1,299, and you can see why the Pixel is, in TechCrunch's words, "the most brilliant laptop you’ll never buy." While lauding the Chromebook's design and display, most critics concur with Engadget, which points out that "it's a piece of gorgeous hardware providing limited functionality at a price that eclipses the (often more powerful) competition."

TechCrunch says that, despite the 1TB of Google Drive storage that comes bundled with the Pixel, unless you do all of your work in the cloud, "this is going to be a hard expense to justify." Yes, you can hack it to run Linux, and over a three-year period, the Google Drive space ends up covering the cost of the laptop (if you actually need 1TB of cloud storage, and were going to pay retail for it, that is). In the end, however, the Pixel is, as Engadget puts it, "a lovely thing that everyone should try to experience but, sadly, few should seriously consider buying."