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one thousand dollars for a laptop that won't run your Windows or Mac apps don't call me crazy until you've seen the new pixel book from Google it's seriously stunning with a frame that's just ten millimeters thin and portable at 2.2 pounds or just one kilogram heavy the aluminum chassis is beautiful and these silicone palm rests feel nice underneath my hands the touchpad and keyboard a staple of the Chromebook pixel before this one are excellent as well in a brief test I was able to do some very rapid accurate typing on the keyboard and I want to say the touchpad is as good or better than the MacBook Pros I've tested again you're not going to be able to use your Mac or Windows s because this runs Chrome OS Google's operating system that mostly consists of the Chrome web browser and a selection of Android applications and if you flip over the twelve point three inch touchscreen you can put in a tablet configuration there's even an optional $99 stylus that was developed in collaboration with Wacom that has extremely low latency they say it's down to just 10 milliseconds on this pressure-sensitive pen so far everything I've told you about something you could probably find on a Windows machine if you looked hard but there are some Google exclusive features as well there's the Google assistant button a dedicated button on the keyboard to summon the voice assistant so you can ask it things you might ask your phone or Google home and there are a pair of USB sea ports on either side of the laptop so you can charge with either of them the laptop box starts with a core i5 processor 8 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigs of storage at the $9.99 dollar mark and can be configured up to a core i7 512 gigabytes of storage and 16 gigs of RAM this device is on pre-order now it'll be available in the US UK and Canada and it's expected in stores at the end of October