“We’re excited to announce our newest laptop — the Chromebook Pixel — which brings together the best in hardware, software and design to inspire the next generation of Chromebooks,” Linus Upson, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, blogs for The Official Google Blog.
“This Chromebook has the highest pixel density (239 pixels per inch) of any laptop screen on the market today. Packed with 4.3 million pixels, the display offers sharp text, vivid colors and extra-wide viewing angles,” Upson writes. “The body of the Pixel is made from an anodized aluminum alloy to create a smooth and durable surface; vents are hidden, screws are invisible and the stereo speakers are seamlessly tucked away beneath the backlit keyboard. The touchpad is made from etched glass, analyzed and honed using a laser microscope to ensure precise navigation. The Pixel also has powerful, full-range speakers for crisp sound, a 720p webcam for clear video, and a total of three microphones designed to cancel out surrounding noise.”
“Powered by an Intel Core i5 Processor and a solid state Flash memory architecture, the Pixel performs remarkably fast,” Upson writes. “The Pixel has an industry-leading WiFi range thanks to carefully positioned antennas and dual-band support. Long-term evolution (LTE) is engineered directly into the machine, delivering fast connectivity across Verizon’s network, the largest, fastest 4G LTE network in the U.S. (LTE model optional). It also comes with 12 free GoGo Inflight Internet passes for those times you need to connect while in the air.”
Upson writes, “Since this Chromebook is for people who live in the cloud, one terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage is included with the Pixel. This enables you to save, access and share photos, videos, documents, and all of your stuff from all of your devices, from anywhere… the Pixel will be available for purchase starting today on Google Play in the U.S. and U.K., and soon on BestBuy.com. The WiFi version ($1,299 U.S. and £1,049 U.K.) will start shipping next week and the LTE version ($1,449) will ship in the U.S. in April.”
Full blog post here.
“$1,300 is MacBook Air territory,” Nathan Edwards writes for The Wirecutter. “Hell, for $1,500 you can get a Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch or a 13-inch Macbook Pro with Retina display.”
“Know what those things have in common? Robust, complete operating systems with huge ecosystems of apps that can use that powerful Ivy Bridge hardware even when there’s no Internet connection available,” Edwards writes. “Know what the Pixel doesn’t have?”
Edwards writes, “Maybe someday Chrome OS will really be enough of an operating system to replace Mac OS X or Windows on a productivity machine. But at $1,300, the Chromebook Pixel is just too much machine for the software. If you have the money to spend on the Pixel and you need the kind of hardware it’s packing, you have so many other better options.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Good luck getting tech support.
Hint: fragandroid
It’s not even the living, breathing abomination known as Android. It is the stillborn, mutant cousin known as Chrome OS.
Weird combination of quite high-end hardware, retarded OS, zero eco-system, mediocre battery life and makes-my-teeth-hurt price point.
I’m completely befuddled by this product.
no shame in googles marketing department – can they at least come up with any original ideas. I do get that the cosmos is cool but apple used that already… come on!
And of course watch as Google’s share price skyrockets.
TechTardiness is rampant.
A sucker is born every minute.
tell me this doesnt remind you of the macbook pro videos from 2008 and 2010 with bob mansfield
That commercial from language, product description, theme music, and product footage has got to be Googles biggest knock-off of Apple yet. Can they think of anything original?
Well. . . the keys appear to have sharper corners… so there’s that.
Sharper corners? The shape is nearly identical to a MacBook Pro.
Was that sarcasm or are you actually serious?
Google are scum.
Oh… keys are sharper I missed the “keys” reference
So, I guess it was ironic sarcasm then, yes?
Well said, Guy—exactly my thoughts as I was watching it.
They didn’t copy Apple videos with their promo, Apple excecs talk more with their hands. 😉
These guys in the video have been watching Apple’s marketing videos and examining its products.
That notebook thing is a copy of Apple’s MacBooks, not a replica but a copy. What they are saying are Apple’s words… Like in college days, you grab your friends’s work juggle it a little bit and create your “own” version, only difference in college you are charged for plagiarism.
At least some people have been paying attention and have been able to imitate Apple. Unlike HP, Dell, Microsoft, etc.
So not withstanding the price, the “Its been done”, the long wifi range in order to suck your info better, the 12 free hugo a gogo passes that will no doubt expire quicker than you can blink so as to charge you for new passes and the lack of weight details, you will love this new “you cannot use pixel because it is now our trademark” laptop so much you will ignore the lack of an eco system, or does Android qualify as an eco system?
Um, huh?
There is no Android on a Chromebook.
There is only the Google Chrome web browser on a Chromebook, plus a kernel underneath to talk to the hardware.
That’s it.
Enjoy your WebTV laptop.
Android would be a step UP from this expensive PO$.
Chrome OS ≠ Chrome Web Browser.
No. I am entirely correct. I did point out, if you read what I wrote, that there is a kernel beneath Chrome to talk to the hardware. ALL the user sees is the Chrome web browser. That’s the entire point of calling it ‘Chrome OS’. Isn’t it.
What can that thing do that an iPad can’t? Other than be heavier, uglier, more cumbersome with a less intuitive UI and half the battery life, I mean.
I am sure it comes with certain backdoors which allow Google to “crowd source” data without users’ permission.
“We want to make it so easy for us to steal your info…. so we just let you give it to us… Store it for free with us – we own the servers..
Will Chromebooks ever offer effective Do Not Track features? Let’s watch and see! 😀
I am sure it comes with certain backdoors which allow Google to “stick it to you even deeper”
Apple continue to be gang-raped by “Google & Associates”… and yet the US Justice system continue to reward the “rapists” like “Google & Associates”.
All I can do is laugh at it all. 😆
Damn! What a sick era.
Now there is a good use of cash! Maybe Einhorn should be asking Google to find a better way to spend stockholder’s money instead of throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks!
Looks like an Apple commercial parody… LOL let me pull up that file – wait you mean there is no internet connection here?
Yawn!
I’m not sure I’d want to admit to anyone that I live in the clouds. Will anyone buy this thing? Or is it just to show people what you can do if you have more money than you know what to do with and more data than is good for you. They should be paying people to use this POS. Then they can make money off the ads they display to the poor folks upon whom they foisted it.
no reason to buy it…
better off to have a Macbook or Mba and download chromebook if thats your thing
I think you mean ‘and download the CHROME BROWSER if that’s your thing’. There is a slight difference.
LTE/G3/G4 support is need in the air…
do you keep pushing the screen farther and farther back with your finger as you use it… I tried this on my laptop here and you need to hold the back for stability… kind of a joke really! maybe the whole thing is a parody!
So what happens if you don’t have an internet connection?
If it’s like the old Chromebook the answer is”not much”.
You pay VZ big bucks for a LTE MiFi and data subscription.
Then you made a poor laptop choice ;P
Over priced All-In-One Webtv.
man I’m diggin’ that hinge hangin’ on the back..who designed that POS? Stevie Wonder?…looks like my kitchen cabinet.
Heh, racist dude is back. Stevie too black for you?
look, you idiot, Stevie is BLIND, similar to your inability to comprehend a valid argument regarding Obama being used as a tool.
now go and watch your CNN and drink your Kool-Aid.
No I watch Fox around the clock. Comedy is so much more interesting.
well, whatever propaganda tv tit you suckle on that has caused your terminal vapidity.
Who should buy this? Absolutely nobody. I love my 15″ Retina a lot and I ever will.
I’m surprised it’s not free so they can tell you in the EULA that they’re leaving the camera on all the time or there’ll be 2 mins. of commercials before you can use it.
That’s unbelievable! That video is total ripoff of Apple. Has Google just given up and only copies Apple now? Did Apple patent their videos?!
Google: The new Microsoft.
This expen$ive POS may well be a mimic of Microsoft in that it is a terrific hole into which to throw money.
It’s hilarious how the loon AAPL stockholders rant about Apple insuring its future survival with a cache hoard, a lesson Apple learned from their 1996-1998 period of losses. MEANWHILE, Google is tosses masses of money to the wind with this ridiculous PO$ loss leader that nobody wants.
Which company is actually WASTING stockholder value? Hmmm? Can you tell? I sure as hell can. 😕
Invest in Google? Invest in Apple? How do I choose?! 😆
“We wanted… basically the hardware disappear”
– Andrew Bowers
Lol, Failed. Hey Bowers, the iPad did that better already — its slimmer – it has no physical keyboard – iPads is basically a magical slate of glass.
“You start using it like a regular laptop… but when you have that urge just to touch”
– Linus Upson
Lol. Failed. Hello Upson, the iPad was designed from day one to be touched – its the original natural input method.
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Apple’s inspiration has been so effective that the other companies are not only copying Apple products but copying Apples way of presenting and selling too.
Apple for over 20 years has been dedicated to creating computers so intuitive to use and minimizing the hardwares complexity so its just a beautiful device to have and use… Google might as well be working with Apple. They express no originality nor differentiating themselves from the competition.
Very, very just….weird machine. What is its purpose?
I bought one of the cheap Acer jobbies to keep around as a throwaway, and ran out of uses for Chrome in about a day. The best thing I could say about the chromebook was that ubuntu was pretty easy to install on it. What provisions does Chrome have for utilizing a touch screen? Is there a single useful program available that will a) run on this machine and b) use the touchscreen for anything?
It just makes no sense–it isn’t like the Chrome OS has unused capabilities crying out for a high end machine…hell, it doesn’t take full advantage of a cheap Atom netbook….
Isn’t “Pinch Gesture” an Apple’s patent? Gee, everything is so “copish”. Don’t they have any sense of ridiculous?
Looks like Google is walking all over Apple and the full operating system will be next
Joking? Or are you an idiot? I can’t tell.
$1,449 for the modern equivalent of a WebTV.
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Or $1449 for a browser!
‘Cloud’ cuckoo land
I get the value in a $250 chromebook.
I just don’t see the value in this thing at all.
At that pricepoint apple’s lineup is not only better but you’ll get a hell of a lot more bang for your buck.
Larry needs to copy Steve jobs and kill this this thing ASAP. Get rid of IT!
You bet your life Larry will copy Steve jobs.
That’s what they’ve been dong since the mole got kicked off apples board.
Google really does need to create its own identity and not just copy.
There’s a phrase in business “if you strive to be your competitors that’s the best you will ever be”.
Business is about being better than the competition by creating better products or services.
Google isn’t doing that. Their chromebook laptop could have been made 10 years ago.
Damn you guys are pretty murderous! Although, there is definetly reason to be. Even the pacing of the commercial was apple-esq. I for one am glad google decided to build computers, we need more competition in this field if we hope to ever truly grow past where we have been. On another note, I don’t see how seeing this commercial doesn’t make apple stock go way up! You basically have a competitor who has large amounts of cash and infrastructure and it builds a a sub-par product with what is out there today. But I am hoping they will continue their venture and give us apple users something to fight for! The past 7 years has just been way to easy.