Google launched their new laptop yesterday, the Chromebook Pixel. The Pixel’s most impressive feature is its high resolution touchscreen, and inside it’s packing an Intel Core i5 processor.

Senior Vice President of Chrome, Sundar Pichai:

Touch is here to stay, and I’m pretty sure every laptop will have touch in the future. Using a laptop with touch seems strange at first, but your day-to-day browser experience starts changing. In our tests, users started replacing the touchpad pretty quickly.

The new laptop will be available from April in the Google Play store. It has a 12,8 inch touch-sensitive Gorilla Glass screen, 4,3 million pixel resolution – about double that of the average Windows laptop and better than the Macbook Retina. The price point is less impressive, retailing for $1 299 for the Wi-Fi only version and $1 449 for the LTE model.

The device claims to have a five hour battery life and also features an SD card slot for automatic photo uploads to Google+ and has QuickOffice built into the browser. Both of these features can be used offline and queued for later, obviously. The Pixel is aluminium coated and was designed and built by Google. And speaking of design, there is an extra laser microphone under the keyboard which complements the two mics next to the camera and allows the software to cancel out any noise that could be made while typing on a video conference – that could prove to be very useful.

Purveyors of the ad industry will no doubt have flagged how Apple-esque that video was. The stark product shots, the 45 degree angle shot of the talking heads… It’s all there. We see your Apple tendencies, Google. We see them.

[Source: CNN News]