Customer Ratings & Reviews

It’s perfect for school and seems to be very durable

One of the most beautiful laptops made by Google so far.

I bought this for my son. Can limit his time online.

Bought it for my daughter for school and she loves it.

This is an awesome device for both work and home!!

Super secure, light weight OS with beautiful hardware...

Great buy and got a good deal. Well worth the money

Finally Goodby Microsoft and you Update issues !!!

i'd say it is better than my expectation. good product

Easy to use and pairs well with my Google home hub

This computer is great for my first year of college.

I get this to replace my Mac and absolutely love it

This is exactly what my daughter needed and wanted

GREAT help! Very easy application. VERY FUNCTIONAL.

This laptop is heaven for me. The 360 degree pivot, beautiful look literally turns heads and is super fast. It's extremely important that you understand this is basically a bigger more powerful pixel phone. If you need a laptop to do much more than what you can do on a phone then it's not for you. I am google everything, drive, docs gmail, keep, etc.... so this is incredible. You have to get the Pixelbook Pen with it, it's better than the S-Pen and the S-Pen is really good. I also recommend getting the Bellroy laptop sleeve because it has a holder for the pen. In the future I feel all laptops/desktops will be app based like this. Downside -- limited by Chrome OS Downside -- no pen holder Upside -- extremely fast Upside -- a design/quality which tops even a macbook pro

I was an early adopter for Chromebooks when they first launch years ago and while I definitely saw a place for them in the computer eco-system I was always disappointed with many of the early iterations. They were always just a bit too underpowered and the software just a bit too basic. It didn't help that they were often packaged in throw-away bodies with typically poor screens, but hey, what do you expect for a computer that often times cost less than $200? When Chromebooks started making headways into the classroom I finally said 'Yep, that's where they belong.' As a teacher, they were the perfect devices to kit out a classroom, promote collaborative work through Google Docs, and didn't break the bank (for the initial purchase, maintenance or replacement). I thought that would be the future for Google and Chromebooks. I was surprised when Google started working with companies like Asus and Samsung to start branching into higher-end Chromebooks. I really didn't think they were going to make a lot of headway when they were not really able to stand up to their price-point competition in the regular PC market. Where Google made the right decision was to expand the Chrome software to encompass the Android marketplace and to take a cue from Apple and lately Microsoft to build their own hardware around their platform. Now we have a powerful, stable, useful, and quite frankly beautiful device. Is it expensive for a Chromebook, sure if you are comparing it to all the previous iterations. Is it too expensive for what this device will be able to do in very short order, if not already, the answer for that is a qualified no. For what I use a typical laptop for, the Chromebook Pixel is more than capable to handle everything I throw at it. It is fast, there is a large array of software that I can use to include MS Office (sorry, Google Docs can be great but there are still a lot of missing features that a power user like me uses on a frequent basis), Lightroom!, Slack, Skype, and a ton of other things. I think this ecosystem is going to explode in short order and with the exception of many of the more intensive Adobe products, I don't think there will be much that this new generation of Chromebooks can't do (and I stopped using InDesign and Illustrator on my other laptop because I need a heck of a lot more screen landscape for those programs). Where I see this really fitting in for me is as a 'show and tell' device. The fact that it is powerful, compact, easy to use, lightweight, and can switch to multiple different modes, makes this the device that I can have with me out and about making presentations to students and teachers, at conferences, and when traveling. Can I do that with other devices for less money, sure but the build quality of the Chromebook Pixel is really top notch. The screen is beautiful (if a tad strange with the 3:2 ratio, but that is only because I'm more used to other layouts), the body of this is solid, the keyboard and trackpad are a joy to use, and while I was initially kind of turned off by the soft wrist-rest area, it has really grown on me and now I kind of want it on my other laptop. We have entered a new era of laptop (and perhaps soon, desktop) computing. Chromebooks in the past had a niche that they filled nicely but was not really in the mainstream for many if not most people. Now with the Pixel, we have a device that may very soon be on par with the offerings in the Windows/MacOS realm. I'm kind of excited by this because I think it is going to help push the entire market into new places. While I agree with what many reviews online said about the Chromebook Pixel about the fact that perhaps the pen should have been included with the device, I really don't know if I'm going to need it. My other laptop has an integrated Wacom pen and I have probably only popped it out twice. I will also say that I have not tried this out with a lot of accessories (monitors, projectors, printers) so I can't speak to that. When I get it out into the field some more I will give an update to this review. Bottom line, don't think of this like you have previous Chromebook offerings, think of it as a soon to be equal to the likes of other ultrabooks and make your decision based on that. I think you will be as pleasantly surprised as I was.

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Overall great. I wish the keyboard backlight had an ambient light sensor.

Love it. The computer runs like a dream, but the palm boards stain. :(

I only use it for web browsing and to play mobile games. Thing I hate is game apps don't work on it. Also it was expensive. Also you need developer mode to use certain things and it is such a hassle to turn it on. Do like the convertible mode