- Hey there, Pete Moriarty here,
and in this video I'm gonna be sharing with you
something super exciting.
We have the unboxing of the Google Pixelbook.
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Okay, I am super excited.
I just got the delivery today,
and I promised myself I wouldn't open it
until I did it on camera,
so we're gonna be sharing this moment together.
This is the Google Pixelbook,
and I've been waiting for this to be shipped to me
for a little while now,
got it shipped all the way over from the United States
because it's not yet been released in Australia.
Now, when are these actually coming to our shores?
Well, sometime in 2018.
Now, why did I buy this machine
when I absolutely love the trusty Asus that I have
and I use as my daily road warrior?
Well, we'll get to that later.
Let's get to the bit that we wanna do first,
which is the actual unboxing.
Here we have our box with the Pixelbook,
and the first thing that's gonna come out of the box
is actually the Pixelbook pen.
This is the stylus, which is additional to the Pixelbook,
an extra couple hundred dollars for the stylus here.
Great little device, really, really good ratings.
Quality: excellent and fantastic.
Unfortunately, there's no way to snap it to the laptop.
There's no hole to pop it into or anything like that.
So you might lose it
or you might not always have it with you.
But anyway, that's one part of the puzzle.
The next one is we have the actual Pixelbook here.
Let's get rid of this junk.
I don't think we need any of that.
All right, here we go.
We have the actual Google Pixelbook.
The cover's quite nice, that's pretty cool.
Let's actually get into it.
I've got my trusty hunting knife here,
and let's start sliding into this guy.
It says turns head on the back, and it certainly does.
And let's have a look at how we actually get this box open.
Wow, now they've gone with the Apple-style box.
Look at this.
It actually takes a little while to open.
Now, if you didn't already know,
if you've ever bought an iPhone
and it slid out of the packet nice and slowly
over a number of seconds,
Apple actually deliberately timed that
so it slides out just with the perfect amount of time
so you get the experience of the unboxing.
Google are obviously taking a few cues from Apple
there with their packaging.
I've got the box here.
What's this?
I've got a let's get started guide.
It's got some instructions on how to charge the Pixelbook.
Get to know, these are kinda oddly shaped, but pretty cool.
Another instruction booklet on the Pixelbook.
And then be safe, safety and warranty,
don't put your eyes in the lasers, those kinds of things.
We've got a charging cable.
Wow, look at this, very Apple-esque.
Pure white, USB-C to USB-C.
So quite similar to the MacBook Pro that I had recently,
which I returned.
Check out the video link below to that one
if you want to check out
why I decided to return that machine.
I've got a little power brick adapter here.
Now, this one's a US adapter unfortunately,
so I'm gonna have to get an adapter to work with that,
but that's gonna go into my little USB-C cable.
Perfect, let's put those over there.
And then we have the actual Pixelbook.
Look at this, very, very Apple-esque in their packaging.
Wow, and it is super thin.
Look at that, what a beautiful machine.
Let's get this bad boy opened.
And we have the Pixelbook.
Now, immediately you're gonna notice
that this machine is really, really nice in its form factor.
It's got this really cool,
let's just get this opened up here,
really cool glass bezel up the top here,
and the rest of it is, it looks to be aluminium.
I'm pretty sure it is.
But the whole machine is just a really, really nice,
sleek, well-designed, well-put-together machine.
And it's got a couple of cool features,
one of those being the rubberized palm pads here.
So when you put your palms there
it's actually quite nice and soft.
And the buttons, the typing buttons
are a little bit rubberized as well.
That's quite cool.
Now, in terms of ports, pretty simple in the ports.
We've got a USB-C on this side,
just single USB-C on the other side,
so they're for charging or for your dongles
if you want to plug in anything else.
By now we've all got to live the dongle life
and have a million of those.
And we get an audio jack,
so if you've upgraded to an iPhone 7
or to the new Pixel 2,
you won't have an audio jack anymore,
but thankfully there's still one here on the Pixel.
Now, this is a convertible format laptop,
so you'll notice here I can turn it all the way around
and go into tablet mode.
Quite nice, and I just really love the form of this machine.
You can see here that nice clean lines on all the sides.
They line up perfectly.
And it really does feel like a sophisticated device.
Now, a couple of downsides with this.
Here's the few things
that aren't perfect about this machine.
Number one is the bezels.
When I started using this,
one of my friends at Google has one,
I noticed immediately the bezels are quite thick,
and they feel a bit too thick for a laptop released in 2017.
They're not completely distracting,
but they're just a little bit larger
than you'd want them to be.
For a 13-inch laptop, you'd want it to extend the screen
out a little bit more.
Now, the second thing is this machine
is absolutely fantastic, but the price?
Hoo, it's a little bit steep.
Let's get back to that
and let's have a look at the pen first.
I'm gonna go ahead and open the pen here.
This is the stylus that you can use for writing
and typing and really, really well-rated,
really well-reviewed.
In our stylus box, again,
it looks like we have a getting started guide,
and we have the actual stylus pen.
This is the cool little stylus pen.
It's got a button on it.
I don't know what that does.
I assume it does some kind of functions, but quite light.
It feels a little bit too light, actually,
but I'll have to see how that goes with usage.
Of course I'll give you guys a bit of a review
after I've used this for a couple of weeks,
but yeah, let's talk about this.
Let's talk about how this machine
compares to the other machines that I've used,
the MacBook Pro, the Asus, the Acer,
all kinds of different Chromebooks that are available
for you to use in your business.
Now, who's this Chromebook for?
Chromebooks are absolutely fantastic,
and you can get all kinds of work done in the cloud world
and the Google world,
and now you can even get Android apps running on these
and even the Microsoft Office apps
are running on Chromebooks via the Android Play Store.
But why would you buy a Chromebook
that costs this much money?
Now, this has an i5 processor and eight gigabytes of RAM.
This is an absolute screamer.
My standard day-to-day Chromebook that I've been using
up until now, that one's absolutely great.
It gets six to eight hours battery life
every single time I use it, sometimes even pushing 10,
and that will let me work
with six to eight tabs at any one time
before it starts to slow down.
And to be honest, that's great for most people.
The Pixelbook is an absolute screamer.
Now, I haven't used it personally myself,
but having double the RAM at eight gig
and having an i5 processor,
this is a real speed machine.
But I am paying for the privilege.
This was, topping out with the pen included,
nearly 2,000 Australian dollars,
which is pretty darn crazy for a Chromebook.
In my opinion, that goes outside of the value proposition
of what a Chromebook is actually about,
is what it's supposed to be.
It's supposed to be a trade-off
between price, quality, usability, battery life,
but also value.
And to be honest, this one's a little bit of overkill.
Now, I bought it because I'm a Google nerd
and we do everything Google
and I wanna have something that's blazingly fast.
But for our customers,
we probably wouldn't recommend buying this individual model.
What we would recommend instead
is something like the Acer R13
or the Asus C302CA.
Both a great balance of fantastic battery life,
excellent performance, not crazy performance,
but excellent performance.
They are amazingly priced,
both of them under 900 Australian dollars, including tax.
And what that means is that you get a great computer
with touchscreen, with the flippable form factor
without breaking the bank.
And they will last for years and years and years,
longer than a traditional machine will,
because you don't have all the extra apps
and updating operating systems, which make them slower.
You just don't have any of those problems.
So this is the Pixelbook.
I'm looking forward to getting my hands on this now,
and of course I will do some follow-up videos
and give you guys a bit more of a review.
Great machine from Google,
and excellent to see Google making a serious play
with a Chromebook for serious performance users.
We will see you in the next video.
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