I know, I know. If ya gotta ask and all that, but still.
Serious question: What makes this Pixelbook worth the $1150 - $1750 price range? (I mean other than physical build quality & materials) You can pick up a mighty decent & highly portable Windows laptop for that kind of money. So what's the draw of a Chrome OS notebook that runs Android apps?
For the original Pixel Chromebooks it was the spec sheet, build quality, etc. The appeal of ChromeOS, with or without Android, over Windows is that it's much more secure, it's a much lighter OS, it performs much better than Windows on like hardware, etc. A $2000 Windows laptop is going to be a very good laptop, providing that the customer does a bit of research and doesn't choose something that's just terribad garbage being covered up by shiny numbers in the spec sheet. An $1150 Chromebook I would expect to have very similar specs and to have performance that's on par.
There are two types of people that should be choosing Windows 10 (full version) over ChromeOS on laptops: Those who are seriously into PC gaming, yet still want to do so on a laptop for unknown reasons and those who need very specific applications that are only available on desktop. Examples of that include... pretty close to nothing. 7 years ago there was a big gap in the apps available, but Photoshop, Office, most everything that normal consumers are using are all available on ChromeOS now or through their own webapps, which obviously work in a browser.
In addition to security, Google also has a MUCH better privacy policy than Microsoft, who gives themselves permission to and actually does share user data with third parties in exchange for compensation. Google denies themselves that permission and actually sticks to their guns on it.
The more direct comparison, Windows 10 S vs Chromebook, Windows 10 S comes out looking like garbage because the Windows store sucks, it's apps are largely made up of total crap, spyware, etc while the largest app makers simply aren't supporting that system and it's still filled with many of the same security flaws as regular windows. In addition, somewhere around 4 times as many people choose Chrome over Edge and over 11 times as many people use Google to search rather than Bing. If you have to be restricted to one or the other, Chrome is the obvious better choice.
For me personally, it depends on what I need it for. Anything that I do that isn't gaming is going to be easy to do on ChromeOS, assuming I can get a Chromebook with sufficient power for graphics to watch movies occasionally. And for gaming, even the best gaming laptops suck compared to a comparably priced gaming PC, so my personal preference is a Windows PC and a Chromebook.
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