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Chromebooks haven't really been tablets until now and the pixel slate is the first that's a convertible tablet in the Chrome family that Google announced today and it's hardware that in New York the pixel slate starts at $5.99 and it's a 12 point 4-inch screen with a really nice 3,000 by 2,000 display now attached to it is this separately sold $200 keyboard that has all the features that you'd look for in a convertible keyboard in that the back angles are adjustable which is a really nice touch a magnetic it automatically attaches it and is powered through the slate so you have to worry about any separate charging and it's got a full backlit keyboard and it's got a very large trackpad connected to it slight kind of feels like a Microsoft Surface and I think that's the idea is to create a footprint that you can do work on easily detach and you'll feel comfortable enough on this that you have I mean it's a really generous keyboard this doesn't this is a pretty large footprint here on a table so similar to surface you got to leave yourself some room but the slate only comes in one 12 24 inch size the price however varies over a spectrum $5.99 to start but it goes all the way up to $15.99 at the top-end that's a lot depending on what processor and what storage you get at the baseline say Celeron processor 32 gigs of storage the pen is also separately sold this is $99 so you're gonna want the keyboard you probably would want the pen if you like drawing pressure sensitive and it feels really comfortable it's kind of like what Microsoft is doing with surface and what Apple is doing with its pencil the features on Slate are pushing forward what chrome is going to be doing on tablets more split-screen assistant features that are baked in to provide suggestions of what to launch the next and the whole thing feels kind of like a pixel phone or Android meets Chrome and again that's the idea now the price of this is going to push it into a territory where you're looking at laptop price with all the accessories or an iPad pro for all that it does it ye'll promising but if you're paying all of that money for all the things that it brings to the table would you want something else there are a lot of affordable Chromebooks that are out there and slate much like last year's pixel book is perching itself at the top end I can tell you that the keyboard with a circular keys feels great to type on the trackpad feels great and the machine feels really solid as you can see here the angles go all the way back or they go all the way from third or this flips around and can become a case for it as well where you can travel with it in a folio mode also take note that front power button or the power button on the side is also a fingerprint sensor pretty cool and the front facing speakers are on either side providing enhanced audio pixel slate seems like it's the beginning of a really good trend for where Chrome laptops are going to go and from tablets will this be the one for you stay tuned for a full review from Cena