Google announces the Pixelbook Go, a premium, MacBook-style Chrome OS laptop

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  The Google Pixelbook Go. [credit: Google ]

NEW YORK-Google is finally making premium Chrome OS laptops again. The company's flagship Pixelbook launched in 2017 and didn't really get a follow-up last year. Instead, the company launched the Pixel Slate, a surface-style tablet-plus-keyboard combo that flopped so hard that Google decided to stop making tablets.

Meet the new laptop, the Pixelbook Go. Google nailed a unique and interesting laptop design with the original Pixelbook, but this new update more or less looks like a MacBook. The inner deck of the magnesium notebook features a normal keyboard layout, a large trackpad at the bottom, and a strip of speaker grills flanking either side of the keyboard. The details all look like a carefully traced MacBook layout, with a similar hinge setup for the screen and a groove cut out of the front edge to allow users to lift the lid.

One big design difference comes in the large, ribbed pad on the bottom, which covers the bottom in a grippy surface in lieu of feet.

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