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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 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.

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You 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!)

The 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.

That'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.

FWIW, 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.

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