Got my Pixel today. Fanboism aside - this is the prettiest laptop I have ever seen. Totally insane in every single detail. The display is just plain crazy.

All that wonderful hardware, all just for Chrome

Adding gestures is a no brainer, but honestly I don't think I would ever use a touchscreen laptop. A Hybrid maybe, or fold over, but not reaching out to the screen..

http://www.zdnet.com/chromebook-pixe...om-7000011971/

I'm of the opinion that we'll see the option to run Android apps on ChromeOS announced at Google I/O. This will all make sense sooner or later.

Nicer than a MacBook Air?!

Ditto.

Oh yes. Everything about it is just insanely well detailed. Unlike any piece of hardware I've ever seen - including the new Retina Macbooks. The "timescape" demo app installed on it shows what the display can do.

The Pixel is much nicer than the MBA. (at lease the hardware)

I'm waiting for the 2 week mark when you'll report back that you hate it and its going on to "the pile".

Doubt it - I've been using a Chromebook for ages, so unless they reveal the Chromebook Ultra Pixel 2000+, I'm sticking with this. And FWIW; the THREE years of 1TB Google Drive alone make it worth it ($50/month normally). Amazing deal.

Also, you know what if funny - hunting down all the tech blogs that called the leaked video of the Chromebook Pixel "a hoax" and reading their justification for calling it out.

I have also been using Chromebook for about two years.

My first one was the free CR-48 that Google gave me. I used it more often than my Windows laptop and Apple iPad2. A few months ago, I also bought the Samsung Chromebook laptop.

Unfortunately, the Pixel is not a good deal for me because I don't need free 1TB of cloud storage or the 4G LTE. (especially since I still have unlimited data plan on Verizon 4G LTE grandfathered in at $22.97 per month)

Funny, earlier today I reread the Surface RT thread thinking the same thing.

The difference was the Surface RT was a totally new device and OS to me - whereas the Pixel is just continuing where I left off with my Samsung S7 (and other Chromebooks before that). Most of what I do is in Chrome, and Chromebooks (and several Chromeboxes) fulfill most of my needs.

Of course, there are still plenty of limitations, and Google will need to work hard to make ChromeOS a viable alternative to my day to day laptop.

Scott,

You had me halfway convinced to get one of these for myself until I read this. You have your day to day laptop and I have my day to day laptop.

1. What keeps this from being your day to day laptop?
2. What situations will you use the Pixel instead of your day-to-day laptop?
3. How is 1TB of Google Drive valuable to you? Isn't it much more than you need?

I suspect that your answers to these questions would be my answers to these questions and thus are key to my decision to get one of these.

I'm just teasing.

I've got a chromebook downstairs, and I like it. We use it as our day to day kitchen machine. I just wish the Pixel was cheaper.

I don't need the google drive space, and can't justify the Macbook-esque pricing.

The same thing that makes a lot of people not even consider Chrome - there are always one or two apps that are not available for Chrome. For me, basic video editing is the main one, along with better photo management. That said, I do need to look into the editing options on the Pixel, as they have now included a photo editing suite, we'll see if it works. Then there are hardware dependent apps like for my Livescribe pen.

When I know I'm not going to be doing any media creation or editing.

I've started adding more and more of my files to Google Drive. I started with the 5GB and filled it up quickly, then moved on to a 100GB plan, and now I'm adding even more. I love the ease of access, and IMHO it beats out things like Dropbox. Next step is to configure the sync software I use to sync my NAS to offload some of the most important stuff to Google Drive. I also use it for work to store important files and have Google Office Bridge installed to send all my Microsoft Office files to Google Drive. I'm sure it'll take a long time to fill 1TB, but at least I have the space.