Slender and sleek. Fast paced. Touch screen is a plus!

Even though I have been, and continue to be, a full time IT professional for the last 35 years, and must use Windows at work in my IT Analyst position, I have used Chrome OS at home and for a non-profit my wife and I run exclusively for over the past four plus years. I've had a variety of ChromeOS devices, Asus Chromebox, Acer R11, Samsung Chromebook Pro, 2017 Pixelbook, and recently the Pixelbook Go i5 variant with 8gb ram. While I'm late to the party in some respects, I finally got up the nerve to order a Pixelbook Go thinking it could not possibly replace my 2017 Pixelbook, and really just wanted to see what all the raves were about and then planned to return it. A month later it's still on my desk in daily use at home and for work that doesn’t require Windows (Office 365, Outlook, Teams, Onenote, etc) And the 2017 Pixelbook? Sold it after 2.5 years of heavy use and yellowing wrist wrests, but otherwise working famously. Call me crazy for giving up 3:2 aspect ratio, use as a tablet and pen input, but after trying the Pixelbook Go I just couldn’t go back. The rounded corners and light in the hand feel brought me back to my favorite Chromebook before the Go, the Samsung Chromebook Pro, but without the creaky frame, this thing is solid. The keyboard, others have said it hundreds of times, is really good. But I will warn you, if you’re coming from the original Pixelbook, you won’t understand the greatness of this keyboard until you’ve typed on it for a while. A quick try in Best Buy numerous times never convinced me as the OPB takes more pressure on the keys. Once you learn to lighten up, it is so wonderful. The backlit keys are absolute perfection, especially compared to the fail of the 2017 OPB that requires you to turn off backlighting when there is just enough ambient light to make seeing the keys extremely difficult with backlighting on. I appreciate the larger trackpad, but will say there hasn’t been any improvement in palm rejection, still need to keep tap to click disabled. Otherwise the trackpad is better than the OPB, though it still needs a bit more force than I would like to click, but the OPB was worse. To be honest, as far as its use as a tablet, I haven’t really missed the OPB as I mostly use my Pixel 4xl to browse, the web, social media and email, and it's big enough to serve the same purpose. For pen input, I didn't really use it that much lately anyway. So there you have it, this 65 year old IT pro traded in his OPB for the Pixelbook Go, and am loving life with my new daily driver. J

If you want a really good chromebook, the Pixelbook Go is the way to go. Great battery life, great build, super light, great keyboard, amazing laptop speakers. If you are in the market for a secondary laptop and you have the budget, this is definitely a great experience. Definitely a little overpriced though.

The first Chromebook I owned was the pixelbook go base model. The device was awesome. Before buying a Chromebook I was very skeptical about what a Chromebook could do, and though they were a waste of money; especially when a person could get more functionality out of an iPad. However, after owning one, and figuring the different workarounds; like when downloading documents or files, I have completely changed my interpretation of owning one. As mentioned, the first Chromebook I have owned was the base model PixelBook Go. The reason why I had chosen to upgrade was because of the processor and storage. The base model was not sluggish, but it wasn't quite enough to run Microsoft apps, at least from my experience. Since owning the i5 version, anything from the PlayStore to Chrome Apps opens quickly with no hiccups. My advice is if the PixelBook Go is going to be your primary computer, I recommend purchasing the i5 version, especially if you see one as an open box like I did :)

Think MacBook Air light- not too many apps properly sized but all the Google ones are unsurprisingly excellent- offering web apps/extensions. Regardless, it’s imperative to get the 128 GB version or you WILL run out of space. Unlike my beloved MacBook Air- the Pixelbook Go is much more sturdy- no case required- just a light sleeve for transport. Lightning fast and high def screen. Couldn’t be happier and feel much more confident taking this out with me on the go- than the MacBook Air 2020 M1. Both are excellent however and you get what you pay for in each case.