I honestly think the Chromebook Pixel is designed more for getting the attention of developers to make software for up coming chromebooks with touchscreen. And they decided to go with a high end laptop to showcase what a chromebook can do to help draw interest from a larger pool of people before they start to trickle down the price for touchscreen chromebooks in the future generations of it.
Verizon LTE is terrible. They up their speeds for people doing tests but real word speed is only 6-9 Mbps down. AT&T seems to consistently get over 25, and I've hit 51 Mbps in Atlanta.
Has anyone looked into the possibility of replacing the internal SSD with a bigger one, say 256 gb? Not sure how difficult it would be or the warranty it would undoubtedly void.
"it's a premium product, costing $1,299 for the 32 GB Wi-Fi only model and $1,449 for the 64 GB 4G LTE model."
Oh hell no, give me a Air or Macbook Pro any day. Hell $1,449, for $50 more I can buy a Macbook pro Retina with 8Gb of RAM same high end display 2560 by 1600 pixels and twice the HD, 128Gb SSD