Price aside, this is definitely a very nice premium laptop. Design and hardwareīefore I get to the Chrome OS part, I want to talk about the Pixelbook a little bit. After much research and uncertainty, I finally settled on the maxed out model during Google’s Black Friday deals. Enter the 512GB NVMe SSD, 16GB of RAM, Core i7 Google Pixelbook. However, going to college in less than a year for a computer science degree finally prompted me to shop for a new laptop. But it worked! And it still ran relatively fast despite its aging state.

It had a 1TB HDD, 8GB of RAM, a Core i5 processor, a 15-inch 720p display, and terrible battery life (about 2-3 hours tops). It came with Windows 8, and I did upgrade it to Windows 10. My current Windows laptop, a Dell Inspiron 15R 5520, was old (6 years to be specific) and bulky. But I never actually ditched Windows and exclusively used a Chromebook as my only laptop-until now. If you’ve ever heard anything about Chromebooks, chances are that you’ve heard the stereotype that it’s just a “glorified web browser.” I’ve been following Chrome OS for years and I know that there is so much more to it now-Android apps, Linux support, etc.

I’m a Google fan, but there has always been one product that I’ve been hesitant to try: Chrome OS, Google’s desktop operating system that powers all Chromebooks on the market.

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