Yes there's something special about a Google Chromebook, but the Galaxy Chromebook is by all indications an excellent spiritual successor to the Pixelbook in terms of build quality, design, specs and capabilities. The Pixelbook outsold Google's expectations (opens in new tab), but even still it was never going to get the sort of traction that a laptop from an incredible brand like 'Samsung Galaxy' will. For him, working with Samsung to make sure the Galaxy Chromebook was the best possible laptop to carry the high end of the Chromebook market was more important than Google pushing to release its own Pixelbook 2. Director of Product Management for Chrome OS), he was very candid about where Google sees its own Chrome OS devices compared to partners. Google isn't making a Pixelbook 2, so this is the laptop we get instead.

And yet Google's fully behind it to promote the Galaxy Chromebook as the top-end Chromebook of the year. But it distinctly isn't a Google laptop - and going a step further, Samsung has chosen its most important brand name, Galaxy, for this Chromebook.

With specs, design and a price like this, you could throw a Google logo on this laptop and it would fit in perfectly as a Pixelbook replacement.

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