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This dual-core, four-thread, 14nm CPU is an ultra-low-power chip designed specifically for slender, light devices like the Pixel Slate. The Pixel Slate carries a brand-new Intel Core mobile processor, the Core i5-8500Y, from the 8th-gen Amber Lake Y family. That said, we were still curious to see how the Pixel Slate performed against other recent Chromebooks, including its year-old Pixelbook cousin. Every six weeks, Google updated Chrome OS, and our past results lose perfect apples-to-apples comparability. When benchmarking Chromebooks, you always have to deal with Google’s relentless OS rhythm. (Otherwise the stylus is exactly the same as last year’s silver model.) Overall, the keyboard’s lightweight, somewhat flimsy design, coupled with the weight of the screen, makes it tough to use the Pixel Slate on your lap. I also would have appreciated a place in the keyboard design or on the tablet itself for that matter to rest the PixelBook Pen, which Google offers in Midnight Blue to match. Unfortunately, the magnets aren’t strong enough to prevent slight movements when you’re tapping with a bit of force on the screen. It’s impressive how the Pixel Slate’s magnets allow for slight angular adjustments. However, you can’t lay it completely flat without first detaching it from the Pixel Slate Keyboard, making “infinite” seem like an overstatement.

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The Pixel Slate Keyboard provides an “infinitely adjustable” design that lets you customize the angle of the attached Pixel Slate tablet far more than you can with an iPad or Surface Pro keyboard. Unfortunately, their circular shape and wide spacing gave me less margin of error in hitting the right key, resulting in more mistyping than usual. They also have a decent 1.2mm of travel despite a low-profile design. The backlit keys (called Hush Keys in the United States) are pleasantly quiet. The multitouch trackpad is as responsive as it is on the Pixelbook. The keys on the Pixel Slate Keyboard are circular, which looks good but feels weird. The Pixel Imprint fingerprint sensor/power button is awkwardly placed when holding the Slate with two hands, but it’s easy to reach on its top edge when docked. When the Pixel Slate is in this position, its two USB-C ports are positioned on the bottom of either side of the tablet rather than the center, so you won’t have to raise the power cord above desk height to plug in the device (as you’re forced to on the iPad Pro). On a table, the Pixel Slate and the Keyboard cut a striking figure, looking like a slender Chromebook. The beautiful midnight-blue chassis perfectly matches the tablet, and it looks as great attached as it does folded up. To that end, Google charges $199 for its Pixel Slate Keyboard-as much as Apple’s Smart Keyboard Folio-but it’s put a good deal of thought into the design.

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You can connect a third-party model via Bluetooth 4.2, or purchase Google’s own. The Pixel Slate has a camera on the back, but you probably won’t be using it much.īecause of the Pixel Slate’s limitations as a tablet, a keyboard is an essential accessory. That means you won’t be using it to take many pictures, which is probably why Google didn’t bother to include any of the Pixel 3’s cool camera tricks (though the Slate does have portrait mode). At 1.6 pounds, the Pixel Slate is also a little heavier than Apple’s biggest tablet (which weighs 1.4 pounds), all of which makes the Slate uncomfortable to hold for more than short stints. At 11.4 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches, it’s actually a bit larger than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, and the extra tenths of an inch matter when you’re already pushing the limits of comfort. While the square display corners feel a bit antiquated in an age of rounded corners, you certainly won’t mind looking at it for hours on end, especially if you’re filling some of that time with movie-watching. It’s very bright (over 500 nits maximum in my testing), and its colors are vibrant. Google says the LCD display covers 72 percent of NTSC, a pretty useless spec in an sRGB and DCI-P3 world, but the Pixel Slate won’t offend critical eyes. With a 3000×2000 resolution, it’s sharper than the 2400×1600 PixelBook and the 2732×2048 iPad Pro, with an impressive 293 pixels per inch (though your eyes won’t really notice). The Pixel Slate has a 12.3-inch “molecular” display, a bit of Apple-style marketing to play up its 6 million pixels. It’s not glass, but fingerprints are still a thing on the Pixel Slate. Google calls it midnight blue, and it switches from deep blue to rich black to iridescent depending on the reflection off of your fingerprints, which are quite visible on the back despite a matte finish. Still, the Pixel Slate’s single color is undeniably a cool one.