OK, so for $1300 you get a good looking screen (which, BTW, won't look good after you start running your fingers all over it!) and... that's about it.
You get hardware that looks like a cheap Apple knock-off, SSD space equivalent to what's in my phone, 4GB of RAM (that was good about... 3-4 years ago), and an OS that ceases to work when you go out of WiFi range (yes, I know most of us are in WiFi range most of the time, but that's certainly not true across the board... I'm writing this from my workplace that doesn't have WiFi, so it would be useless to me here at work).
Google's ChromeOS is a neat concept when it is running on a dirt-cheap machine. My brother has a Samsung Chromebook (or whatever they call it) that I played around with a little. It wasn't amazing if I'm comparing it to my full Mac experience. But, for $250, it's a nice machine for browsing the web and doing some very basic tasks. But much above that price point I can't fathom being interested in the least! My iPad is better suited to nearly every task I'd throw at it, and if I need more than that, ChromeOS isn't going to get it done anyway.
I like innovation, and I LOVE competition, because it forces companies to think outside the box and lower prices. But at $1300, I really don't see the Pixel as anything more than a flop that we'll all talk about in a couple of years. Maybe we'll be able to pick them up on eBay for $300 or so in a few months (whenever Google gives up on this over-priced idea).
