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I love my pixel slate, best tablet/laptop I ever had. Such a shame. The screen is great, the keyboard is surprisingly good and it's awesome to be able to ditch
by muro 7y ago
I love my pixel slate, best tablet/laptop I ever had. Such a shame. The screen is great, the keyboard is surprisingly good and it's awesome to be able to ditch the keyboard for a while when reading docs etc.
Linux and Android apps mean I can run android studio and e.g. Lightroom (android version) as well as many games. I got back to playing some DOS games in dosbox.
It's fast, light and very well manufactured.
- sahaskatta 7y agoThe keyboard design was quite poor compared to the Surface Pro in my opinion. It felt wobbly when carrying around too as it didn't magnetically keep the bottom part of the keyboard snapped to the display when shut closed. I also don't feel it was light by any means. It weights almost a full 3 lbs with the keyboard attached. That's heavier than the Dell XPS 13 and much heavier than a Surface Pro 6.
- muro 7y agoThat's possible. I switched from a MacBook Pro 15 and the slate is much much lighter and has a much better keyboard. Perhaps lowest bar.
- metal13 7y agoYou pretty much described me. There's a ton of software glitches, but I have a tablet that I can code on (running Linux), answer emails, run every Android app I need, and weighs far less then a laptop. Though I got back into NES games, not DOS (yet!)
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoFWIW, I love my PixelBook, and it's become my number 1 dev machine (runs the full Jetbrains suite, Postgres, etc. from Crostini), plus I just flip the screen all the way around and it turns into a tablet. Selfishly I hope this just means Pixelbooks get more love.