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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and the target demographic for the Chromebook pixel to people who are expected to buy it as a percentage of the normal population is almost nothing but that's okay this is a Chromebook pixel 2ls and apparently LS stands for ludicrous speed and I believe it it has the specs that look way too ridiculous to belong in any Chromebook and I wasn't originally going to do a video about it but after actually using it for a while I have to at least show it to you guys because I like it too much not to basically I'm guilty of falling in love with an incredible piece of hardware even if it does have a pretty narrow functionality so on the outside it's pretty simple it's an all-metal design nearly the same as last year and a bunch of little tweaks are made to make this version better than that so it's weighted pretty much perfectly as a laptop so you can lift the hinge without the bottom of the laptop moving so that's a nice touch and it has a slightly new keyboard design so all the special keys up top that it functions inside Google Chrome are now a little bit lower so they feel like part of the rest of the keyboard and this is actually a really nice keyboard it has a decent amount of travel and it's a pleasure to type on for long periods of time because that's exactly what I did and the trackpad is also new it has built-in gestures now kind of like OS 10 so you can use a four finger swipe to reveal all of your open chrome windows which kind of feels like real multitasking when you have a bunch of apps open and of course you can't forget where it got its name the Chromebook pixel has an incredible display again very bright very vivid very contrast the awesome viewing angles and 2560 by 1700's so some extra vertical pixels for web browsing and web apps since everything Scrolls vertically anyway and it's still an awesome touchscreen too and because of these awesome specs it's actually really smooth like very impressive kinetic scrolling felt iPad like on this massive display I mean I was very impressed using it and then of course there is new ports so the Chromebook pixel switched out its old charger for a USB C port and not one but two so one on either side so on one side you have a USBC port and a full-size SD card reader so there's your expandable storage and on the other side another USB C port so yes you can plug in to either side and as a backup you also get two full-size USB ports and the headphone jack so I mean with this combination of specs and build and ports and price and everything honestly this would make an awesome Windows machine or Mac laptop before you even find out it runs Chrome OS so that's also neat there's also a pretty dope LED light strip up top and that has some new features too now so it lights up all colors when your laptop is on which i think is pretty nice it was yellow only in last year's and then there's this knock feature which is probably heard about when the laptop is closed you can just knock three times and it'll light up with the amount of battery life you have left which is really cool and when you plug in it tells you how close you are to done charging that's a nice way around the USBC charger not having an indicator light the absolute worst part of the Chromebook pixel hardware is a toss-up between either the speakers this time or the camera the camera is just this garbage 720p webcam wasn't expecting to be impressed with it but hey at least I can say it's not 480p em and the speakers are actually underneath the keyboard so there are no speaker girls or anything it just kind of sounds like the sound is being muffled by the keyboard because it is but outside of those two things you know performance is extremely good all the time battery life is extremely good you can get 10 plus hours of use every single day and the apps you get from the Chrome Web Store look it doesn't do much but what it does do it does very well the Chrome Web Store is a lot more full-featured now than it was last year when I showed it and you can now sort by apps that are just links to websites versus actually fully built web apps which are much better and you can also run apps that were built for Android on this thing too so you can legitimately get a lot done in this newest version of Chrome OS now if you've gotten this far and you're still thinking dude why would I want to pay over $1000 for a web browser I could get way more for less money then this is definitely not for you but for those who can get away with using mostly web apps which have gotten really good and maybe having a cheap Windows machine on the side for when you need something that's not available online this is a beast of a machine the one thing I'd like to change since Wi-Fi and internet isn't available everywhere I would like to see this laptop with LTE so I could have Internet on-the-go that would be pretty damn close to my perfect ultra portable so that is the story there for the Chromebook pixel - it is like the original a beautiful piece of engineering and an incredible piece of hardware that you should probably never buy well I mean you can buy it but you should know what you're getting yourself into first they have it thanks for watching if you enjoyed it feel free to hit that thumbs up button below and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace