Google Pixelbook - I Bought a $1000 Chromebook #Helpful Post

hey guys Zhou Steen this is a one

thousand dollar Chromebook which begs

the question why does it even exist this

is the Google pixel book now this is

actually not the first time the Google

has made a high-end Chromebook a few

years ago they make the Chromebook pixel

which is very much an earlier version of

what they've got here to me spending a

thousand dollars on a Chromebook doesn't

make a ton of sense

so really the sweet spot for these is

typically in the two to three hundred

dollar price range there you're getting

pretty decent hardware well yes it's not

going to be quite as usable as something

like a Windows computer for a lot of

people Chrome OS is all you actually

need pop open the box and the first

thing we see is the pixel book itself

actually I will say this is really

unique Hardware for a laptop

unlike basically all other high end

laptops these days that are made out of

aluminum or sometimes stainless instead

you have this sort of glass finish on

the both front as well as back of the

computer if you look at it side by side

with something like a pixel - you'll

definitely see the family resemblance

so port wise there's not going to be a

ton essentially you have one USB C port

on the side as well as a headphone jack

and on the other side you're going to

get one more USB C port so the nice

things about the pixel book is it

actually does share pretty much all this

with the pixel - so in theory you can

use the same charger for your phone and

your laptop pop this guy open and we see

that yeah that is actually rubber this

is such a really designed laptop say

what you want about Chrome OS and

whether it belongs on a $1000 laptop but

this hardware it is really nice yeah I'm

doing a 180 on this computer way too

fast so when I'm here at work a lot of

times I will be using a Windows laptop

to plug it into a USB C monitor but this

hover is so nice I actually might give

the Chromebook up sorry the pixel book a

try well this guy updates something else

you might want to consider is picking up

the pixel book pen so that wasn't a lot

of Chromebook isn't enough you can spend

another $100 on a stylus sometimes it's

hard for me to justify using a stylus on

a computer I know a lot of people like

to be able to take know to do sketching

and stuff on a computer especially with

this guy where you can actually flip the

screen all the way around it might be

helpful but I just don't find a ton of

use for it although this actually does

look nice touchpad firmware update in

progress

keep your hands off the touchpad this

will take around two minutes I have

never seen that in my life what happens

if I touch the touchpad now Oh

Kenneth a bad influence okay a bad

influence inside the pixel book is a

seventh generation Core i5 processor

eight gigabytes of RAM and I 128

gigabyte SSD those are the specs of the

base model that I have here if you want

to upgrade to the model with the core i7

16 gigs of ram and a 512 gig SSD that's

going to run you sixteen hundred and

fifty dollars and of course if you want

the pen don't forget to throw another

$100 on that so what are you getting

with $1000 plus Chromebook well the

hardware like I said is pretty nice so

you do have a fully flexible hinge so

not only can you use it in sort of a

display mode but you can flip it over to

10th or if you want you can use it in

tablet mode you can tell they optimized

this for tablet mode because the bezels

are kind of huge now to be fair when

you're using it like this it does give

you a little bit of space for your

thumbs to sort of rest on the screen but

when you're spending this much money on

a laptop smaller bezels would have been

really nice so it is a twelve point

three inch panel with a resolution of

2400 by 1600 as you'd expect it has a

touchscreen and it looks really nice

nelli do the speaker sound good but it

is a really sharp screen this is a very

high resolution for a 12 inch panel I

had nothing but good things to say about

the typing experience either the

keyboard feels good with solid spacing

and it just has a nice sort of tactile

feel and the trackpad is surprisingly

good not only does it have a glass

surface but has somebody most accurate

scrolling I've ever felt this is right

up there with a lot of MacBooks

the real question here though is what

exactly can you do on a thousand dollar

Chromebook well first of all you have

chrome and well yes that doesn't sound

like much of a selling point for me I

actually do spend a lot of time and

stuff like YouTube Google Docs and Gmail

and for that this works fine what newer

Chromebooks like this have is the Google

Play Store now this essentially will

give you access to a ton of different

Android apps that will run straight on

Chrome OS oh my god recommended for me

love life school idol festival no no no

I touch the trackpad for you I'm not

doing anything else of course the first

thing I have to try is Super Mario run

because this is not ridiculous in any

way oh this is so huge my hand kind of

hurts from holding a laptop like that

but I mean that's one way you can play

games on your supercool pixel book there

are some slightly more practical

benefits of having Android apps such as

things like Photoshop sketch so this

combined with the pixel pen means that

you can actually do some pretty decent

drawing having access to Android apps

like Instagram and snapchat on a laptop

can be really cool but the problem is is

that while some of these apps are pretty

decent and do support Chrome OS a lot of

them are either just stretched out

versions of the phone or worse yet

they're just running in a phone sized

window the pixel book also has Google

assistant so there's a few different

ways of launching this but one of my

favorites is with the pen so you hold

the button you can just draw on a

particular part of a webpage and it will

use Google assistant to try to figure

out what you're looking at so here it

figures out that I'm talking about the

iPhone 10 the pixel 2 it gives a link to

the actual page as well as to my channel

and it will also transcribe any text

that I select so should the Google pixel

book exist I'm sure there's a market out

there for someone to spend $1000 on a

Chromebook and yes this is some of the

nicest laptop hardware I've ever tried

but it is really hard to justify buying

this we didn't get a great PC or Mac

Book so what do you guys think about the

pixel book let me know in the comments

below and I will catch you on the next

one