The Chromebook Pixel has seen something of a perception shift since Google launched it on an unsuspecting world ten days ago. Instant responses — mainly from those who didn't have one — balked at the price ($1299 for the Wi-Fi version, $1449 for LTE)
Then as units started to filter into the tech community, it came to be understood that this wasn't just an expensive netbook. The touchscreen — yeah, a touchscreen on a laptop — was as good as the Macbook Retina; the brushed aluminum construction as solid as any Apple device. The Intel i5 dual core chipset delivered a powerful punch and the 64GB of flash memory meant you didn't always have to rely on its free terabyte of cloud storage.
