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time to road-test the innovative Chromebook pixel we have some experts product testers here and we're gonna find out if you guys can live in the cloud Brian Abbey and Herman each of you will spend two or three days with the pixel are you familiar with this it's kind of Google laptop I'm seeing some reviews and had a chance to look at it a little bit but curious to see how it works in the real world and Abbey I know you're in production how do you feel about the idea of something is basically just a browser I'm a little skeptical about it I'm not sure if it can do everything that I want it to do but I do use Google products though alright and then Herman I'm thinking that you live on a cloud do you live in the cloud well I am a cloud so I can't wait to test it out he has his own weather all right guys have fun with the Chromebook and then we'll get back together in a week or so and we'll report back hi my name is Abbie Barret Lavoie I'm a professional filmmaker and producer and I love to shoot video and read comic books i'm brian fisher senior correspondent for the pac-12 networks and i and i'm always connected hey my name is Herman Chan a real estate broker extraordinaire the Bay Area native and I went to Cal go bears my first impression when I see this packaging is if it were not for this Google insignia here I would've thought this was a Mac product the first thing that I do notice is that the screen resolution is beautiful but it is a glass screen and not a matte screen which I don't like because it has so much reflection in it so that kind of takes away from how beautiful the screen does look you know I like the design I like the look of it it's a little bit darker which is a good color and otherwise you know it's solidly built and it definitely feels like it's one piece of machine the Chrome OS is fairly user friendly I think it's really cool that I can do this touch screen swiping and stuff like that and I think that would be really useful if I were meeting a client at a presentation but me sitting in my car or at a open house or at my desk doing this all day with ergonomic Lee just kill my shoulder I mean I think the only limited thing on this laptop and especially working outside is probably the battery life I think that's probably the only negative I just had shot some footage and it's on this card here so I wanted to see I'm pretty sure it's not gonna work but I just kind of wanted to see if it would load onto this computer and the first issue I ran into is there's no firewire 800 so I just can't even pluck his Pippin so I'm gonna try this one it has USB so and there it is it looks like you can actually play it I really I seriously didn't think it would play it I would love to tell you more about the app experience however I can't log on because apparently I need a Wi-Fi hotspot to get on the internet so I mean that's a big downer for me it's a little bit too big to kind of take it with you to say a press conference and whatnot and run up and down and get interviews but if you're just kind of staying in one spot you know it's pretty pretty solid the aspect ratio is a little different you know it is 4:3 it's not the sixteen by nine you're really used to and you know someone who likes to have Twitter up on the side I'd rather have that whip I like the idea of having cloud apps but you know traveling and doing all that you know you can't want to make sure you can have that offline capability so here we are back where we started with the Chromebook pixel I can't wait to get you guys as thoughts so would you think about the Chrome OS then and the usability of life in the cloud well I like Chrome I use it all the time but I also like options so I was little bombs I couldn't use or anything else but it was these CDs yeah so what did you find it easy to use awesome I would love to live in a cloud but the things that it's predicated upon wireless and if you find a wireless then it's kind of defunct Oh Brian how about you and these I mean you can use Google Docs or spreadsheets and all that's great but kind of do more than that especially for that price you know I was looking for some more options and you just didn't see it on all right overall for twelve hundred and ninety nine dollars pixel would you buy it do not buy do that by what about you hell no hell no Brian no buddy no chance on the Chromebook pixel it's really really pretty nobody wants it you