Google announces Chromebook Pixel: a premium Chrome OS laptop shipping next week for $1,299. highlight is the screen: with a 12.85-inch, 2560 x 1700 touchscreen panel, Google says it's the highest resolution display that's ever shipped on a laptop. "You'll never ever see another pixel in your life," says Chrome VP Sundar Pichai. And yet this particular screen has a 3:2 aspect ratio: In order to better fit web content, which often flows vertically down a page, the screen is nearly as tall as it is wide. For the first time in a Chromebook, specs have been improved: with a Core i5 processor and Intel's integrated graphics -- rather than an ARM or Intel Atom chip -- this Chromebook should have a similar amount of performance to existing Windows ultrabooks. Google says it can play multiple 1080p videos simultaneously. While it admittedly doesn't have the same software ecosystem, Google says developers are on board, showing a new UI for photography website 500px. Gogole also demoed a new Google+ app that should arrive in a few weeks: it allows Chromebooks to take photos right off an SD card and upload them directly to Google Drive.
Google will ship two versions of the Pixel, one with Wi-Fi only and one with Verizon LTE: the Wi-Fi model will come with 32GB of storage, and is on sale today for $1,299. It will ship next week. The LTE model will have 64GB of storage for $1,449. Google's also including a full 1TB of Google D
Time to sell the samsung chromebook
at this one?
Y'all can't tell me that ain't a macbook
