hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and Google was nice enough to contact me
and send along a new pixel book go a little bit early so they sent along this
package I thought it was just going to be the pixel book itself but we've got a
little bit more here now I opened this and it was actually
ripped already but let's go ahead and open it up and we'll see what we got
here so what we have is a pixel book go user
guide we've also got a pixel book go challenge so we'll set these aside
they've sent along some accessories as well so these are laptop carrying cases
from looks like from Bell Roy but it says made for Google inside so that's
pretty interesting it's nicely padded so I'll set that aside really really nice
and then we've got another one here and says pull down to open and it's a huge
backpack so it looks like we've got space for just about everything we need
it also says made for Google inside so looks like it's just got some straps on
the back and then we've got a couple different things saying that it was made
from recycled plastic bottles so let's set this aside and take a look at the
pixel book itself so here is the pixel book go itself and I don't think there's
anything else in this package at all so let me set this down and so we have the
pixel book go and these come in at 6:49 to $13.99 depending on which model you
get they come with a core m3 all the way up to an i7 so I think this is the i-5
let's take a look here here you can see it says 8th gen Intel Core i5 processor
8 gigs of ram 120 gigabytes of storage full HD display now you can actually get
this display in up to 4k but you have to have the i7 variant in order to do that
now let's go ahead and open this up we'll take the wrapper off here
and around the box it's really nice it's pretty thin too and this should be made
out of magnesium but let's open the box and let's see what we've got inside so
this is the just black variant you can also get it in not pink let's take this
out here it's pretty thin I'll set it aside just for a moment and let's see
what we've got so we've got let's get started open your
pixel book go to turn it on we've got some pixel book stickers and then a
little warranty card set those aside we've got a USB C to USB C plug and it
looks like this one's really nice and long so that's good if we need to extend
it to a wall that's a ways away and then we've got a pixel book charging block
let me open this up here and the adapter is really nice it's just a square block
and it says it outputs three amps I don't know if you're going to be able to
read that but it outputs three amps so on the back there's nothing but on the
bottom is where the actual USB C plug goes so that's pretty interesting let me
set this aside now let's go ahead and take the wrapper off and this is that
new bottom that they have this is all magnesium with a coating on it so you'll
see it looks pretty interesting but it is a magnesium coating now along the
outside edge we have a USB C port on the right side and then we have a USB C port
and a headphone jack on the left side looks like we also have a little status
light there as well and then let's go ahead and open it up so we've got a
little cover here now this display is 1080p and I didn't expect that to wake
up so quickly but there it goes it says welcome now this one does have a 1080p
display it's 1920 by 1080 with a hundred and sixty-six pixels per inch now it
does have dual four firing speakers and like I said it is a
core i5 with eight gigs of ram and then we have these speakers a nice keyboard a
larger trackpad and a magnesium frame so let's go ahead and set it up and let me
select my network here optionally we can send information to Google to help make
this a better OS we click accept and continue and it says checking for
updates now it's updating and this was one of
the best things about Chrome OS kind of just does everything quickly in the
background it says about three minutes left
once it's done we'll be good to go and this is a touch screen which is really
nice and this also has a couple different microphone arrays here as well
as a front-facing camera that does 1080p so you can use it for video this comes
in at 2.3 pounds or 100 1061 grams and the i7 model is slightly heavier this
should be pretty good to get at least 10 to 12 hours of battery as well
now with that charger you do get fast charging 2 hours and 20 minutes to fully
charge this device and it has Wi-Fi 802 dot 11a b/g/n and AC it also has 2x2
MIMO with dual band 2.4 and 5 gigahertz it also uses bluetooth 4.2 so that's
everything as far as the specs it feels really good
I like this coating on it on the back here this is just very unique I think
it's very very nice so now it's updating its saying touchpad firmware updating so
that's kind of interesting we'll wait for that to finish now we'll sign into
the Chromebook now I'm signed in and we'll wait for the next step and just
typing on this to sign in this is a really nice keyboard it's one of the
nicest I've typed on in a while now as you can see the keys actually have
decent travel here and it's just really nice so now it's asking me if I want to
sync Chrome or it's telling me about that
I'll hit accept and continue you have to agree to the Google Play Terms of
Service then it's asking you if you want to backup your drive automatically so
we'll hit accept and then you can install apps from your other devices so
anything you use anything from tasks to Spotify you can use and that'll be
really nice I'll just use Spotify for now
google podcasts and we'll hit install and continue says we'll install these
two apps for you we'll continue setup and then access
your assistant with voice match I'll agree it says loading it already
recognizes my voice and it says your assistant is ready we'll hit done and we
have an assistant button here as well now it says connect your phone your
Chrome your Chromebook and Android phone will work better together connect them
so you can text from your computer and share your internet connection on and
unlock them so we have it a couple options here we can connect the
different phones oh I'll pick the pixel for Excel accept and continue and now
we're in so it says howdy Aaron take a tour and
it's saying smart lock has turned on next time your phone will unlock your
Chromebook you can turn off smart lock in the settings so I'll click take a
tour we can dim the screen or brighten the screen here it says get to your apps
fast down here check your status up here we'll hit finish for now so this has all
of the chrome applications I'm familiar with so if I hit this button here we
have a search your device or search the web we can search we can just type
Zillow Tech and you'll see it pulls up the browser and it's Chrome so it's
really fast very nice and I think I'll enjoy using this and it looks like it's
going to be a pretty interesting experience I haven't used a Chromebook
in a long long time so here is my pixel review and we can go up to 4k in the
settings which is nice even though it's a 1080p display it's not really worth
doing that but it looks really nice let me see if we can just scroll to scrub
through that's pretty nice let's see if we can go to the photo
section here in this video see what the speakers sound like
they do get a little bit tinny at the top end but overall they're pretty good
especially for a small laptop I'm not sure how they compare with other
high-end laptops and things but this should be a pretty interesting device to
use over the next week or so as I review it that's it for the pixel book go now
if there's something specific you want to know about it and maybe a future
review or comparison let me know in the comments below I haven't used a pixel
book before I've played around with them I've used Chromebooks but never a pixel
book and this feels like a semi premium experience I do like the the bottom of
this and I really like that keyboard so far but let me know if there's anything
specifically that you can't find anywhere else and I'll be happy to
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