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 wanted 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 wanted 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 $1,000 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 dirt 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 kind of
touched 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 will search for it
which honestly feels really gimmicky 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 circled but it's just 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 won't be able to text it
all that hard and the battery life is ok I mean it's good
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 C freezer - 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 for two $300 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 comb book
but like who's gonna buy this and the thing you have to keep in mind is it if
you're gonna spend $1,000 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 mentioned 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 up hand in the laptop industry is making really
good hardware Dell has good stuff HP the Razer 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
that 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
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