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    Google Pixelbook now $250 off at several retailers until June 17

    Kevin TofelBy Updated:3 Comments2 Mins Read
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    Well this might make the question of buying an HP Chromebook X2 or a Pixelbook a little tougher: A handful of retailers, including Google themselves, have reduced the price of the base Pixelbook from $999 to $749. Best Buy is one of those offering the deal and they’re also taking $250 off the two higher Pixelbook configurations as well, according to Android Police.

    Google says the price reduction in their store is good through the of the day on June 17, so for now $749 gets you the same model I purchased: A seventh-gen Core i5, 8 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of flash storage with the 3:2 aspect ratio display at 2400 x 1600 resolution.

    Over at Best Buy, the next step up doubles your local storage to 256 GB and costs $949, which is $50 less than the original price of the base Pixelbook. Best Buy is also selling the Core i7 model with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of local storage for $1399. Other retailers selling the base model with a $250 discount include B&H Photo, ABT, and Walmart (yes, Walmart!).

    After seeing the first hands-on video of the HP Chromebook X2 yesterday, I was tempted to run out and buy one myself. While I was thinking it over, I was using my Pixelbook with Linux apps and decided to hold off: I’d rather have the latest developer features and it appears that Google’s own flagship Chromebook is the one to have for those at the moment.

    If you’re like me then this deal is almost too good to pass up unless you want to play the waiting game and see what other high-end Chromebooks will appear in the coming months or you simply have to have a detachable Chromebook like the X2 now.

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    After spending 15 years in IT at Fortune 100 companies, Kevin turned a hobby into a career and began covering mobile technology in 2003. He writes daily on the industry and has co-hosted the weekly MobileTechRoundup podcast since 2006. His writing has appeared in print (The New York Times, PC Magazine and PC World) and he has been featured on NBC News in Philadelphia.

    3 Comments

    1. R O on

      So what are the prospects for turning a Pixelbook into a “pure” Linux PC? Last I checked a year or 2 ago, the generic procedure is to do something like that via chroot (Google still controls/limits that?).

      • Kevin C. Tofel on

        I don’t think that scenario has changed. It’s either chroot/Crouton or run Linux in a container with Crostini.

    2. Ryan Lounsbury on

      I had been really debating what direction to go on the laptop front. The only thing that really keeps me tethered to a Windows laptop/deskop are some games I like to play on occasion. But, now that the Pixelbook has Linux app support that removes that barrier.

      So, with the price drop I went ahead and jumped in on the entry level Pixelbook.