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what's going on guys your average consumer and today we're checking out the brand new Google pixel book which is supposed to be the best Chromebook out so let's see what we get in the box but before we get going we got to give a huge shot to Full Sail University for sponsoring today's video so let's get this thing ripped open so first thing we're greeted with oh by the way I do have the pixel pen right here - we'll get into that in a bit now this is supposed to be - point of four pounds and it's much lighter than is seen than it sounds I know a lot of people will complain it this is supposed to be a bit heavy this is not bad at all man this box is unnecessarily large but what you get inside you get a cable you get a double-sided USB type-c cable as well as a wall adapter I think this is a 45 watt wall adapter so conduced this thing up pretty quickly and that's it for the box well that's it unnecessarily large but uh whatever and the pixel pen actually goes for about a hundred bucks the pixel book itself starts at $9.99 so a thousand bucks for a Chromebook we have to see if it's worth it but a thousand bucks here and a hundred bucks here let's see you stir oh yeah so tiny ol battery that just popped out I didn't mention it but both boxes do come with some paperwork I don't know if you're gonna actually read it but it's there that plastic baby where things slides right out this could've been dangerous this is clean and so a quick look around this before we open it up and get it powered up you've got two USB type-c ports on each side a headphone jack thankfully unlike the phones you also got a volume rocker on the left side and all the way at the bottom you've also got your power button and this thing has a similar design to the Google pixel phones it's got that aluminum body and the glass Visor at the top on the bottom though that has this a grippy material here so that I guess it doesn't slide around on the table so that's actually kind of nice it's pretty firm and here's what you get when you open this guy up on the palm rest areas you'll have the same rubber material that you got on the bottom here and this should lead to a more comfortable typing experience you of course got your trackpad that's right in the middle it's all kind of uniform which is nice and you also have this little button here on the keyboard which is the button for the Google assistant so this has a dedicated Google assistant button which makes sense and you also have a backlit keyboard which is nice but we'll see that when we actually powered it on so I just quickly ran through this out of process when I realised I didn't speak to you guys about specs so what you're working with here this is actually the base model so it has a seventh generation Core i5 processor which can be updated to a core i7 it also has eight gigs of RAM which can be upgraded to 16 gigs it also has 128 gigs of solid-state storage which can also be updated to 256 gigs or 512 and we're also working with a twelve point three inch display that's running at a 2400 by 1600 resolution and that's a pretty good resolution and also has a webcam and on their site it's a 720p at 60 FPS I don't know how many megapixels one of you guys know feel free to leave a comment down below but you've got that as well and this is meant to be the most powerful Chromebook and you can definitely spec it out to be if you want but I've got to put this guy through his paces test out all of his features and unless you guys know how it does so first things first I love the hardware this is a premium device at a thousand bucks or starting at a thousand bucks so you want the hardware to be good and I really like what I see here it's very comfortable the keyboard is very nice to type on I like how thin it is now as a laptop I can appreciate the thinness but when you turn it into tablet mode so when you flip it over like this and you turn it into tablet mode it's a bit thicker than any other tablet that I've used which makes sense and you've got this keyboard in the back here that I don't know I really just can't get over feeling the keys and even though the keys aren't doing anything when you have it in this mode it just feels wrong to just have the keys exposed and being touched like this for the reason now why I do really like the hardware it's something that I really can't get over are the bezels so when you're using it in tablet mode these bezels they're just really big I'm not a fan and the fact that this has an aspect ratio that isn't the typical sixteen by nine when you're watching your videos this is a lot of black borders I really can't get over it to be honest it just doesn't feel like a device from 2017 now I still think the hardware is a 1 it has great specs probably the best SPECT Chromebook you'll find on the market but I do think that the fact that it has these bezels and in combination with that aspect ratio it's not the best for media consumption especially when you're throwing it into tablet mode so that's my only real gripe with it now let's talk a little bit about the software experience I've typically stayed away from Chromebooks because I always felt like Chrome OS was lacking in quite a few different departments but it's safe to say that this thing is evolved way beyond what I'm used to so now with the pixel book we get 100% Android app support which means you can jump into the Play Store and download any Android app that you would like and it works just fine now there are some caveats here in terms of the quality of the apps if I pull up something like Instagram over here you'll see that it has these black borders so that's something to keep in mind if you are looking for a full-blown experience here you won't get a full screen but you can minimize it and you have access to it here like this would have been cool to be able to change the size of this because it kind of looks a little bit small but it is cool to have that functionality nonetheless now there are web-based apps that you can go ahead and open up in the Google Chrome browser which is pretty typical for Chrome OS but you can use the Play Store now to go ahead and download those same apps in the Android version so you will get two different versions of the same application so there's Gmail for Android and Gmail for the Chrome OS which is the regular everyday browser now for me I feel like this can get a little bit confusing so I think the best way to do it is kind of just get rid of this pinned Gmail app and boom now there's an additional little piece here that you can pick up for 99 bucks and that's the pixel book pen now you might be familiar with these pens pens are all the Krays now there's the surface book pen Apple has there 10 and now Google is joining the fray but this has been really nice to navigate Chrome OS if you want it's been pretty responsive now I don't honestly don't use any apps that really require it I don't use Photoshop or anything like that so I just navigating it seems pretty fine but one cool feature I think would work for everyone is the ability to do a Google search when you press this little button right here so all you got to do is press the little button on the pen here find something that you would like to get more information on you circle it and your Google assistant will let you know exactly what you're looking at so right here it sells to me what the definition of pumpkin is gives me a bunch of different search results for pumpkins pumpkin carving Mickey Mouse so it pulled up all that information just by me circling this which is awesome now is the pen actually worth the extra hundred bucks maybe for a design student or someone who's using those apps that really take advantage of having a pen definitely but if you're just an average everyday person like myself I don't think there's gonna be that much value in it especially considering there's no real way to keep track of it you can't really attach it based on magnets something that I've personally gotten used to with these surface books now it does have that pretty cool little googling feature but that's really just a gimmick but it could be useful sometimes but not worth $100 you're not gonna walk around with this as you're googling pen so final thoughts on this guy I think that this is the best hardware that you'll ever find on a Chromebook and this isn't the first time Google's done that they've done that with their original pixel where Google pushes the boundaries and gives us something that's amazing to look at amazing to feel amazing to use but the user experience I think really depends on the person if you're married to the Google ecosystem and you love Chrome OS this is the absolute best Chromebook that you can possibly get your hands on if you're using something that's pretty old and outdated this will be a very nice upgrade but at this price range though you have to keep in mind that there are other products out there like MacBooks and surface books that do quite a bit more than this guy does out of thousand bucks I don't think this is the best value for everyone unless you're really really into Chrome OS then this is the best you can get on the market and again huge shots of Full Sail University for sponsoring today's video and chances are if you're watching this channel you're pretty tech oriented so there are two programs I want to tell you about first up we've got their online and on-campus mobile development bachelor's degree program where you'll learn how to develop and market an app from start to finish and second we've got their online mobile gaming master's degree to help you expand your skills and improve the mobile gaming field and some personal full self launch box program is a macbook pro industry software and some Android and iOS devices and since its estimated that there's gonna be 109 is having billion mobile app downloads this seems like a pretty good industry to be in so visit full sell that edu slash your average consumer or check the link down below in the description if you want to learn more but that about wraps it up for today's video guys hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy girl that goes this video a thumbs up and I'll catch you guys on the next one till then it's your average consumer pace