Google Pixelbook 2: Everything we know so far

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Nosotros haven't given up on a Pixelbook 2. Though it has been years since we've heard anything about the long-awaited Pixel Chromebook, we nonetheless have hope it volition somewhen materialize — fifty-fifty if that promise is faint at best.

As Android Authorisation reports, during a Qualcomm printing event in London, Chrys Tsolaki, who is a Retail Partner Manager for Chromebooks at Google, was asked if the company was working on a new Pixelbook laptop. She replied with: "Next yr at that place won't be anything coming. In the future, I don't know."

That statement certainly doesn't bode well. But but because we won't get a Pixelbook ii in 2022 doesn't mean the premium Chromebook won't arrive in 2023. Perhaps that's naive thinking because how long we've waited for even a nibble of news, but we'd rather be optimistic.

Here's all the current information nosotros have about the Pixelbook 2.

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Google Pixelbook 2 release engagement

The Pixelbook wowed eyes and tried to redefine what a Chromebook could be on October 30, 2017. Adjacent, the Pixel Slate (which isn't getting a sequel) arrived on October ix, 2018.

The Google Pixelbook Go was announced on October xv, 2019. Much similar the Pixelbook and the Pixel Slate, Google appear the Go at a media event.

Based on that blueprint, we expected the Pixelbook 2 to release in October 2020. That didn't end upward happening, either in 2020 nor in 2021. Given Tsolaki's statement, a Pixelbook 2 won't release in 2022.

Google Pixelbook 2 specs

One interesting flake of Google Pixelbook 2 rumormongering we've seen in the past points to Google going with recent trends in computing.

Multiple Geekbench 4 benchmarks posted to that app's ain site show signs of a device named "Google zork" that ran on AMD Ryzen processors. The scores were published on Apr i and June iii (both in 2020), with the former engagement's car using an AMD Ryzen 7 3700C with Radeon Vega Mobile graphics, while the June upload was washed on a "Google zork" with an AMD Ryzen three 3250C 15W with Radeon Graphics. Zork, as weird a name as it is, was rumored every bit a potential Chromebook codename since an About Chromebooks mail service in 2019.

The highest multi-cadre score from those tests was 8,298 (on a Ryzen seven unit), which only slightly beats the seven,927 that the original Pixelbook (with a 7th Gen Intel Cadre i5 CPU and 8GB of RAM) scored on that same exam.

Could the Pixelbook go AMD-merely? As more and more laptops offering both AMD and Intel versions, it'south not impossible.

Don't worry, by the way, well-nigh Geekbench labeling these scores equally coming from a device running Android. ChromeOS doesn't have its ain version of Geekbench, then it has to run via Android app emulation.

All of the above information is years onetime, with mobile technology becoming more than performant and powerful. The Pixelbook 2, when information technology comes out, should have the latest tech underneath its proverbial hood. We simply can't definitively say what components the Chromebook may take. It would all exist speculative at this betoken given how far removed we are from the rumored specs posted above.

Google Pixelbook 2 toll

Google still believes in high-priced Chromebooks. How do we know? The original Pixelbook is still starting at $999 on Google.com, fifty-fifty in 2022.

This is why we're betting that the Pixelbook 2 will also kickoff at/around a g. How they'll convince united states to drop that kind of change, nosotros are waiting to see.

Google Pixelbook 2 outlook

As it stands now, we promise for more reasons for the Google Pixelbook 2 than a small performance boost. The original Pixelbook had a fleck of a bombardment life upshot, lasting only vii hours and 43 minutes on a unmarried charge — falling below more affordably priced competitors.

So, as we continue to look for Pixelbook 2 news and rumors, we're hoping to acquire well-nigh a redesign or claims of longer battery life. Merely given that the Chromebook will not release in 2022, it's best if nosotros put information technology out of listen until more than concrete news becomes available.

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