Google Has No Plans For More Pixel Notebooks

[44267547]

I'm mocking the fact that no one would spend $1,000 plus on a Chromebook. There's really nice Chromebooks to be found for a few hundred dollars. I have guided two people in the last year to purchase Chromebooks and they couldn't be happier.

It was a dumb decision of Google to go after the luxury market, as that's owned by Apple. They should have gone for the mid-range market and created a well-rounded product in the $400 - $600 range. This would undercut the Macbook line and give their customers a capable product. Once you establish yourself in the notebook world as a player, THEN you can go after the $1,000 market. Unfortunately, Google is run by people that go outside and juggle in the middle of their workday consistently making poor decisions for their products.

I wouldn't spend a $1000 on a Chromebook either. And my previous post was Stated exactly that, An affordable and practical Chromebook for a student, where it meets basic needs for education and productivity. These $200.00-$300.00 Chromebooks are great starting points and caddy the right tools.

 

[willmtaylor]

I wouldn't spend a $1000 on a Chromebook either. And my previous post was Stated exactly that, An affordable and practical Chromebook for a student, where it meets basic needs for education and productivity. These $200.00-$300.00 Chromebooks are great starting points and caddy the right tools.

Also depends on the desired amount of privacy for the student and their access to the internet.

 

[44267547]

Also depends on the desired amount of privacy for the student and their access to the internet.

I'm simply speaking on the price point to manage simple tasks for a students academic needs. I wasn't going beyond that point.

 

[Winni]

You don't compete with Apple in the $1000+ personal computer space. No one has for decades.

Yeah. That probably explains why my Dell XPS 13 beats the **** out of my 13" Retina MacBook Pro...

 

[AdonisSMU]

I'm surprised these didn't get the support of Steve Troughton Smith on Twitter complaining about how they only needed to do Y and Z to replace his macOS operating system all together...
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And yet you get all the Google fans calling them iVerge. I guess they must be doing something right.

Or they could be doing something wrong. I mean they like everything no matter what.

 

[_Refurbished_]

Again, I say that this was not the purpose of the Pixel. It was not meant for the mass market nor has it ever been. It was a developer device and a halo device to show OEMs what Chrome OS was capable of. It obviously wasn't a dumb decision because Samsung, Dell and HP all have mid-high end Chromebooks now.

Also, if you do believe the rumors, Google IS coming out with some sort of computing device priced at ~$700. There's your mass market device.

Again, I stand by my comment. Google didn't design a high-end device only to abandon it a few years later. It was a flop. Manufacturers can create a prototype version of a high-end Chromebook if they wanted to "see what ChromeOS could do".

Google should have gone after the correct market, the mid-range market, if they wanted a product that would last more than a few years. If they had released a well-equipped $700 notebook a few years back, this article wouldn't exist and we wouldn't be able to disagree with each other on the outcome .