Google’s Pixelbook is the first high-end Chromebook in years

chromebooks mostly exist in two camps. The first is the education market, where an entire

generation of students have been using cheap, low-end laptops to get their schoolwork done. The second camp is the direct-to-consumer market, where manufacturers like Samsung and Asus have been introducing higher-end models that creep up into the $500 range, but don't have the power or flexibility of a proper Windows or Mac laptop. Now, for the first time since Google discontinued the Chromebook Pixel last year, it’s back in the top end of the market with the Pixelbook, a laptop that starts at $999 and can be priced all the way up to $1,649. And if you want, you can spend $99 more on the Pixelbook Pen, a stylus designed specifically for this laptop. The Pixelbook itself is stunning. It's an incredibly well-built, thin, and beautiful laptop that you can convert into a tablet by flipping the screen over. In this top-tier camp, Chromebooks aren't judged solely on their power and looks. Instead, they're judged on a different question: is it really worth spending over a thousand bucks on a Chrome OS device? When Google released the first two Chromebook Pixels, you almost could detect an apologetic tenor to its answer to that question. Sure, it'd say, then add some sort of caveat about how it was only meant for a small subset of people. Talking to the executives and engineers who built the Pixelbook, I detected a distinctly different attitude: sorry, not sorry. They're excited about this laptop, and I don't blame them.                                                                                                                              https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16405214/google-pixelbook-laptop-photos-video-hands-on-pen