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hey guys Zhou Steen this is a one thousand dollar Chromebook which begs the question why does it even exist this is the Google pixel book now this is actually not the first time the Google has made a high-end Chromebook a few years ago they make the Chromebook pixel which is very much an earlier version of what they've got here to me spending a thousand dollars on a Chromebook doesn't make a ton of sense so really the sweet spot for these is typically in the two to three hundred dollar price range there you're getting pretty decent hardware well yes it's not going to be quite as usable as something like a Windows computer for a lot of people Chrome OS is all you actually need pop open the box and the first thing we see is the pixel book itself actually I will say this is really unique Hardware for a laptop unlike basically all other high end laptops these days that are made out of aluminum or sometimes stainless instead you have this sort of glass finish on the both front as well as back of the computer if you look at it side by side with something like a pixel - you'll definitely see the family resemblance so port wise there's not going to be a ton essentially you have one USB C port on the side as well as a headphone jack and on the other side you're going to get one more USB C port so the nice things about the pixel book is it actually does share pretty much all this with the pixel - so in theory you can use the same charger for your phone and your laptop pop this guy open and we see that yeah that is actually rubber this is such a really designed laptop say what you want about Chrome OS and whether it belongs on a $1000 laptop but this hardware it is really nice yeah I'm doing a 180 on this computer way too fast so when I'm here at work a lot of times I will be using a Windows laptop to plug it into a USB C monitor but this hover is so nice I actually might give the Chromebook up sorry the pixel book a try well this guy updates something else you might want to consider is picking up the pixel book pen so that wasn't a lot of Chromebook isn't enough you can spend another $100 on a stylus sometimes it's hard for me to justify using a stylus on a computer I know a lot of people like to be able to take know to do sketching and stuff on a computer especially with this guy where you can actually flip the screen all the way around it might be helpful but I just don't find a ton of use for it although this actually does look nice touchpad firmware update in progress keep your hands off the touchpad this will take around two minutes I have never seen that in my life what happens if I touch the touchpad now Oh Kenneth a bad influence okay a bad influence inside the pixel book is a seventh generation Core i5 processor eight gigabytes of RAM and I 128 gigabyte SSD those are the specs of the base model that I have here if you want to upgrade to the model with the core i7 16 gigs of ram and a 512 gig SSD that's going to run you sixteen hundred and fifty dollars and of course if you want the pen don't forget to throw another $100 on that so what are you getting with $1000 plus Chromebook well the hardware like I said is pretty nice so you do have a fully flexible hinge so not only can you use it in sort of a display mode but you can flip it over to 10th or if you want you can use it in tablet mode you can tell they optimized this for tablet mode because the bezels are kind of huge now to be fair when you're using it like this it does give you a little bit of space for your thumbs to sort of rest on the screen but when you're spending this much money on a laptop smaller bezels would have been really nice so it is a twelve point three inch panel with a resolution of 2400 by 1600 as you'd expect it has a touchscreen and it looks really nice nelli do the speaker sound good but it is a really sharp screen this is a very high resolution for a 12 inch panel I had nothing but good things to say about the typing experience either the keyboard feels good with solid spacing and it just has a nice sort of tactile feel and the trackpad is surprisingly good not only does it have a glass surface but has somebody most accurate scrolling I've ever felt this is right up there with a lot of MacBooks the real question here though is what exactly can you do on a thousand dollar Chromebook well first of all you have chrome and well yes that doesn't sound like much of a selling point for me I actually do spend a lot of time and stuff like YouTube Google Docs and Gmail and for that this works fine what newer Chromebooks like this have is the Google Play Store now this essentially will give you access to a ton of different Android apps that will run straight on Chrome OS oh my god recommended for me love life school idol festival no no no I touch the trackpad for you I'm not doing anything else of course the first thing I have to try is Super Mario run because this is not ridiculous in any way oh this is so huge my hand kind of hurts from holding a laptop like that but I mean that's one way you can play games on your supercool pixel book there are some slightly more practical benefits of having Android apps such as things like Photoshop sketch so this combined with the pixel pen means that you can actually do some pretty decent drawing having access to Android apps like Instagram and snapchat on a laptop can be really cool but the problem is is that while some of these apps are pretty decent and do support Chrome OS a lot of them are either just stretched out versions of the phone or worse yet they're just running in a phone sized window the pixel book also has Google assistant so there's a few different ways of launching this but one of my favorites is with the pen so you hold the button you can just draw on a particular part of a webpage and it will use Google assistant to try to figure out what you're looking at so here it figures out that I'm talking about the iPhone 10 the pixel 2 it gives a link to the actual page as well as to my channel and it will also transcribe any text that I select so should the Google pixel book exist I'm sure there's a market out there for someone to spend $1000 on a Chromebook and yes this is some of the nicest laptop hardware I've ever tried but it is really hard to justify buying this we didn't get a great PC or Mac Book so what do you guys think about the pixel book let me know in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one