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welcome to the inside scoop I've seen at scar se boy joined by senior editor seth rosenblatt and sets today we are talking about the debut in the much-anticipated Google pixel the touch book Chrome yes tell us a little bit about this device first so this is the device that had the video ad that was leaked two weeks ago it's a touchscreen Chromebook the first of its kind it's actually kind of interesting because when google debuted the Chromebook several years ago the very first thing I did with it accidentally was open it and touched the screen ah so this is something that I think a lot of people certainly I have been anticipating for quite a while you've had your hands on the device laptop for a couple of hours now what are your initial impressions our thoughts it's interesting the divide the laptop has a different screen ratio than most screen ratios most laptop screens are designed at 16 9 because that's wide screen and it looks Bend Hollywood movies look very good on it this is actually a three to two ratio screen because most of the web is vertical at least that's google's theory and so people will be scrolling vertically through their docs yeah through websites and instead of trying to get web sites to change to a horizontal orientation which is going to be very difficult they just decided to make the screen more vertically oriented what's interesting about this is that i found that while i was typing on it the screen was just a hair further away from my fingers when I went to go touch the screen then I've been experiencing with windows 8 devices which tend to be more horizontally oriented did you find that the touchscreen was responsive fast enough it was most of the time it was very responsive a couple of times it was sort of wonky and Google's sundar pinch I the senior vice president of chrome and google apps explained that was actually not a hardware issue but a back-end issue that will be fixed over time as Google's Chrome OS which powers the device iterates it updates every six weeks so instead of waiting with Max or with Windows for a couple updates a year if you're lucky this gets updates every six weeks just like your browser and another important point about this pixel is that it's also one of the first pieces of her laptop hardware that Google has designed itself it is the first be first so why is that important as far as where this company wants to go in the future well up until now Google has only developed their own hardware for Android and this is the first instance of them developing hardware that's non-android except for google glass right so with this where i think what i think what we're seeing is the first steps towards a unified Android and Chrome operating system mmm interesting you can do the hardware and the software and do it all together yes and finally how much is the cost and when is it available all right it's not cheap the Wi-Fi only version is going to cost you 12 99 in the US and that's available for pre-order now I believe it's shipping in a week or two the lte-enabled version is going to run you a couple hundred more than that and that's going to ship in early April but you can also pre-order that now great thank you so much your senior editor Seth Rosenblatt I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop