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hey how's it going Dave 2d here and today's video is about the pixel book the new Chromebook from Google and there's a lot of good reviews about this thing but I want to do something a little bit more encompassing because I feel like some of the reviews that there are a little misleading not intentionally so they're just not looking at the bigger picture of what this product is or what this product isn't so I kind of want to go through its paces so let's just talk about the hardware first the hardware is fantastic everything that you've read about how good the hardware is is exactly that it's literally the best built Chromebook available on the market it's expensive it's $1000 but it is really good the keyboard is excellent backlit and way better than most other Chromebooks I would say it's better than a lot of other regular laptops even the trackpad is pretty good it's built really well with great material choices and a good button mechanic but there's a little bit of a stutter in Chrome OS the white rubber pads are nice they're supposedly quite resistant to dirts or any kind of staining and they position them all over the device to kind of protect it when you have it closed or just give it a little bit of grip so when you're using it you just feel more confident in its ability to not get damaged the tablet mode is less awesome to me it's not super bad it's just not as comfortable as I'd like my tablet to be the keyboards on the bottom is to kind of touch that every time you use it and it's a little bit thicker and heavier than a dedicated tablet would be but any kind of two-in-one foldable device is gonna feel like this and as a tablet it's not bad one thing that seems a little bit buggy right now though is that you can't run the apps in split-screen so if you're in tablet mode you're running in a full screen all the time hopefully a little to fix that with a software update there's an optional stylus called the pixel book pen which I didn't bring into work today to film but it basically works as intended the lag is very minimal as long as the apps have been recently updated it's a good stylus as you would expect but there's this feature where you can circle things in chrome and Google a search for it which honestly feels really geeky I tried it a bunch of times and just the accuracy isn't there for whatever reason it's just pulling up stuff that is somewhat related kind of to the thing that you've circled but is never something that I really wanted to search for performance is good it's running some seventh gen Intel chips but it's a Chromebook right I feel like the average person that's gonna be using this pixel book probably will detects at all that heart and the battery life is okay I mean it's good but I just expected it to be better considering how low demand this whole system is I'm getting around eight hours of battery life okay I want to talk about the OS and Chrome OS is probably where this whole thing starts to break down I like Chrome OS I think it's a great system I think a lot of people call it a limited operating system I disagree I don't think it's I mean limited is just the wrong word I would kind of want to approach it it's just a different way of using your computer I think a lot of people out there can use Chrome OS perfectly and just get through everything that they need to do and they don't even realize it they think that they need Mac OS or Windows to do what they do but they don't they actually could do everything that they need to do with chrome OS the problem however and I think this is where I think everything breaks apart is the price tag this thing is a thousand dollars and when you look at the price of any kind of competitor product so a 12-inch MacBook a MacBook Air and XPS 13 razor blade stealth iPad pro all of these things can do what the Chromebook does but more much more and I feel like that is why I that's why this product is so hard for me to recommend to people I think it's a good product I think it's good for what it is but it should be priced at like seven or eight hundred dollars see I did a video a while ago called the best Chromebook this was sometime in the spring I think or like early summer of 2017 and to me at the time the best Chromebook was a product that was five hundred dollars it's the Asus c30 - I think and that's a great product but it's very expensive for what it is a Chromebook for five hundred dollars kind of took people aback I mean you can buy Chromebooks four to three hundred dollars that are really really good a $500 Chromebook was whoa easy now Dave like are you sure you want to recommend a $500 Chromebook this is a thousand dollar Chromebook and it is better if this is the new best Chromebook but like who's gonna buy this and the thing you have to keep in mind is it if you're gonna spend a thousand dollars and that's so much money you have to justify its purchase like you gotta be able to use this and prefer it over any of the other devices that I've met and I think for most people that's just not the case if you want better battery life there's other options if you want the ability to play games there's other options there's just so much more versatility with the other choices over this even the iPad pro can do more than this can just for the average person and it sucks because this is such a good device it's just overpriced and four or five years ago when this original pixel came out like the original Chromebook pixel came out it was really impressive because Hardware looked so amazing for its time but nowadays everybody who's got a hand in the laptop ministry is making really good hardware Dell has good stuff HP the razor like there's so much good hardware to choose from that is difficult for this thing to stand out just on Hardware atlona I think a lot of the review that there are so impressed by the hardware though like ooh shiny pretty but the usage experience is still very it's just not there it just doesn't have the versatility that a thousand dollar device should have okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs you loved it see you guys next time you