It's possible to experience Chrome OS running on a laptop for a few hundred dollars, but if you want a high end experience then Google offers the Chromebook Pixel laptop. The last update the Pixel laptop received was in March 2015 when we got $999 and $1,299 variants. But it looks as though they will also be the last Pixel laptops ever released.
According to TechCrunch, Google's senior vice president for hardware Rick Osterloh told a small group of reporters at Mobile World Congress yesterday that the Pixel laptop is no more. Osterloh also confirmed that the existing 2015 Pixel and Pixel LS models have completely sold out and no more will be manufactured. The Google Store confirms as much, with Pixel laptops no longer listed for sale.
For now, it means Google is out of the laptop business. We'll continue to see laptops released running Chrome OS, but none of them will be made by Google. As to the future, Osterloh wouldn't confirm this is the end of laptops forever for Google, but right now there are no plans to create another one with or without the Pixel brand attached.
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This brings an end to what was actually quite a short experiment with laptops for Google. We got the Cr-48 Chromebook back in 2010, but that was really just a prototype and test for Chrome OS. The first Pixel launched in 2013 for $1,299, with an LTE version appearing in April 2013 for $1,449. Google kept us waiting a couple of years before updating the Pixel to the current 2015 models.
With the Pixel, Google was attempting to demonstrate what a high end Chrome OS laptop could look like. Now it's up to other manufacturers to fill the gap, but hopefully for less than the $999 price of entry. The recently released Samsung Chromebook Pro is a promising sign of things to come, at least. As was the news every new Chromebook will run Android apps.
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