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I think I finally found my dream computer the only problem is that it lives between two different devices the Apple iPad pro and the Google pixels slate the Apple iPad pro has always been a tablet that I've liked going to for its fast processing and it's library of apps but it lacks certain things those certain things happen to be on the Google pixel slate however the pixel slate is also not necessarily the tablet computer that I'm looking for sure there's a Microsoft Surface but I think these both carry it forward they both cost about a thousand dollars when you add up all the accessories one of my favorite things about the Google pixel slate that's also true of Chromebooks and that supports trackpads the thing you can't do on an iPad pro the trackpad plus the keyboard means that you could type on this you can also move a cursor around you can do things for editing it also supports Bluetooth mice so you could do this and you compare and look at that you can actually use this Microsoft Surface Mouse you could highlight you can have second click you could use the scroll wheel this is sort of stuff that's not a magic trick but you can't do it on an iPad and you really should and it's really nice to have it and stated here it makes it feel a lot more like a computer the other thing you can do in a pixel slate that feels like other Chromebooks is you can have multiple windows there's no restriction to how you drag around windows and apps which feels again like a regular desktop but also the browser feels like a real computer browser in the sense that it supports a whole lot of tabs it supports extensions and chrome feels the way they don't work on a laptop or regular Windows or Mac computer it also works with most apps and tools I would expect it to you work within a web browser including Google's suite of apps no surprise because the Chromebook is made by Google but Google Apps Drive Gmail being able to use them in a browser is the way you would normally use them on an iPad pro you'd have to download the app separately and interconnect them and apps you know there are a lot more apps than you might think on the pixel slave because it taps it a lot of apps on Android not everything can be downloaded but a whole lot can and it really feels like a pretty decent collection that's on tap that and chrome ones that work in browser ones that are standalone that work on the built-in storage so pretty good app library and another thing I really like is multiple users sign in now this is again not new but the ability to sign into different accounts like a lab account and a personal account that's easy on a pixel slate and it means that when you log in all of your apps and all of your settings are all ready for you to use that's not the case on an iPad it's something that I really appreciate here and makes devices like Chromebooks really good to use in schools what don't I like about the pixel slate well a lot of it has to do with its size and price it's heavy and even though it's really pretty compact it still doesn't feel like a great one-hand device and similar to the 12 point 9 inch iPad pro I don't feel like I'm gonna want to use this on the go all the time without a protective case or on a desk now the price $5.99 for the starting price of this with 32 gigs of storage is not awful but when you factor in all the accessories you'd want like the keyboard which is $200 or the pixel book 10 which is $100 you're getting really close to a thousand and the version I reviewed this is a thousand dollar configuration with 128 gigs of storage so you can be even paying a lot more that's kind of like the iPad pro and I don't want to pay that sort of price for a Chromebook and it didn't really feel all that fun and maybe that's because I use an iPad a lot and I use a lot of iOS apps there are certainly other apps to play with on this but it does feel a little more like a work device than something though being all around fun device and I feel like game performance on this so far at performance that are Android based it's not quite as smooth or as nice as you get on an iPad and for this price I would expect it to be now if you're looking for something that's like the Google pixel sleep it costs a lot less the HP Chromebook x2 is the way to go it comes with a keyboard it's also a Chromebook and it's also detachable cost a lot less than this one I really like the direction of the pixels light is going in but I don't think the price and its current performance match up to what you would want but maybe in 2019 we'll see a lot more affordable options and hopefully some of those trackpad and browser things end up on the iPad pro as well please