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this beautiful piece of hardware is the pixel book it's been over four months since it came out initial back two reviews are almost out dataxe have been a lot of software updates that have come so I wanted to pick one up revisit it and see if it's worth the starting price of one thousand dollars for Chrome OS before I jump in I want to give a huge shout out and thank you to the Acorn collective for making this video possible if you want to give crowdfunding you've got a new idea for something you want to crowdfund you're going to want to stay tuned in to this video they are revolutionising the crowdfunding platform so pricing on the pixel book is is ridiculous I think anybody who bought one would even admit themselves ridiculous start to the thousand bucks so you're getting nice specs I've got Core i5 and here at eight gigs of ram but a thousand bucks you are at surface laptop category there's a kind of other Windows laptop so you can get you're talking about some macbook pricing some use macbook pros you can get a lot of computer for a thousand bucks what you're gonna get is still really nice so Google's been testing Android apps and Chrome OS for a while and it kind of became official with the pixel book and you've got close to the full breadth of the Google Play apps here which are nice some things are still weirdly letterbox you get access to all those applications which make things really easy to use and that's the functionality to the pixel book we're also gonna have a problem with that is you're getting people could ask things like slack for example there's an awesome web Aven and there's the Android app and you could use Gmail tab for Gmail and there's a myriad of other email apps you can use you're kind of stuck with oftentimes two separate apps or two separate icons that do essentially the same thing that took a little getting used to the Android apps work and I haven't had much issue but they don't look made to scale obviously for a screen of this size what surprised me about the pixel book first was battery life and it was gonna be awesome but I'm getting upwards it's like 10 to 12 hours of battery life which is crazy the facts in 10 days I've had it I think I've charged it twice and even need to charge it just out of habit charged it and it'll charge via one of the two USB type-c ports which I guess is nice to have doing work on the pixel book it was a little bit frustrating doing stuff and slack was easy I was able to download the Android versions of Microsoft Office and that works really well did a lot of work in the Google suite kind of stuff what I missed was having an actual desktop experience I know there's a local storage on here there's a decent amount of it and there's a full file explorer it's just not as elegant as a typical laptop and I guess I shouldn't have expected it to be that I found workarounds for everything I was able to do all of my work on the pixel book it wasn't as easy as it would be on say a Windows PC or a Mac laptop and obviously the area is where it excels is in Chrome I loved you can launch Chrome apps as their ona windows and you can pin them to the dock you get more of a desktop test experience but things in chrome obviously were awesome watching and watching YouTube videos watching movies browsing TechnoBuffalo any other websites those kind of things were really good the touch screen added to responsiveness of course the touch screen it's a really high res screen that works well Ben Yoder's our scroll and just use your finger was certainly nice to have that option there's still a decent amount of hinge wobble we'll talk about the hinge a little bit more in a minute but it was nice to have and it was a great chrome experience as good as any I think I got on a Windows PC or a Mac laptop I do want to add for extra functionality to the Chromebook and this isn't unique to the pixel book but there is chrome remote desktop lets you access a Windows PC from a Chrome browsers if you need that does work pretty well I'm not a hardware side there's a lot of stuff to really like about this I love the silicon a little pads on the left and right of the trackpad it's thanks for really comfortable experience the keyboard is absolutely awesome it's one of the best laptop keyboards that I've used trackpad is glass and works great the two-finger scrolling through through websites or document is really smooth incredibly responsive so that's nice to see here so I talked about the the hinge I thought I could sort of bend it and I could watch movies I could put it up in a tent mode to show my wife's and stuff I was working on I can use it to read scripts when I'm editing videos and working on certain things that are coming up the added functionality of that hinge is nice it's not unique to pixel book a lot of convertible laptops that have that but each time I use a reminded of how nice it is sort of have that option the bezels are huge on this and I know the argument is that when you're holding it as a tablet so your fingers someplace to go but there are other convertibles with much smaller bezels that you can still use a tablet so I've got a hard time buying that argument it's almost an excusable on a laptop that cost this much you can spec this thing up to cost about 1700 bucks another weird design Q so it's incredibly thin it doesn't weigh that much the nice to put in a bag but it's strange that when it's closed I can still push down and click the trackpad there's a weird annoyance that I noticed there are other nice things in the keyboard we've got a button for a Google assistant another sort of desktop UI asking essentially things I become your app drawer and settings are all here and sort of built right into the keyboard when I bought to fix the book it also came at the pixel book pen and I'm sure you guys probably saw our márquez's review at the pixel book and when the pen first came out it was not very useful he had a ton of issues with responsiveness it didn't work that well and evidently got some software update excited no issues like he had my spy responsiveness and moved quickly when I was scrolling around the screen app took advantage of what it could do work really well essentially I just use it to see if it worked I'm not a big pen guy and besides that there's nowhere to stick this thing I was absolutely gonna lose it it's about a hundred bucks you want to buy it separately if it's not bundled I don't see they use with it I'm not an artist it's cool you can serve circle stuff and I'll do Google searches with it but you know so when I got this I initially figured I was gonna use it for like a two weeks and kind of return it like I was it was fun to try it is an extravagance and there's a lot of other lower priced Chromebook option Samsung's got some awesome choices it's hard to say yeah you should spend a thousand bucks on a Chromebook it is like I said not a necessity for anybody's world and the crazy extravagance but I think I'm gonna keep it I like having a computer that boots up really fast I'd like to having to take out you know another computer at home have this just always be at home it's able to do almost what I need it to do for me boil down to Chrome OS is good at a lot but it's not really great at anything what I've needed to do I found workarounds I liked having it but it's nice and it's worked well for me so I'm gonna chalk this up to something I certainly don't need something I'm really glad to have so I want to thank the folks at acorn collective for making this video possible if you've ever liked crowdfunded something you back something you probably know about crowdfunding maybe you try to use it yourself crowdfunding or quickly sort of supplanting venture capital firms as the way entrepreneurs are getting money but the big VC firms there's some like dirty secrets behind it the big one is that they're all equity backed so that's gonna mean that they focus on projects that sort of give them the best return and the best entry are stupid high and their policies make it next to impossible for people from developing countries to get their ideas on there potentially get their ideas to turn into something real a core collective is sort of turning that entire thing on its head so the platform is backed by blockchain technology so you know it's going to be secure and reliable and then one of my favorite things about it's gonna be completely free for use in any country so matter where in the world you are if you have an idea you could get it funded it's totally awesome the early backers aren't equity holders they're token holders surging some of the cool stuff about blockchain with cryptocurrency their token is OHA they're in a presale right now but time you watch this video they'll probably be already available link to it down below if you want to learn more about crowdfunding you've had an awesome idea for crowdfunding you haven't found a platform to bring that idea to life a core collective is a really sweet way to do it again it will link to it down below you should definitely check it out so that that's a pixel book it's well-designed hardware it's a beautiful screen for like an unnecessary amount of money you guys really interested through Google's core of products did you guys pick all these up did you try one in the store I'd like to know what you think about it it's definitely a polarizing computer yes you can even call it a better one don't you guys think leave a comments down below of course subscribe it's a little bell icon next to it we got more picture book videos coming up until next time i'm generating gherkin TechnoBuffalo