This leaked Pixel Laptop will likely run Android, not Chrome OS

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• Google is reportedly working on a new Pixel Laptop.
• Codenamed “Snowy,” the laptop could offer some reasonably high-end hardware.
• While there’s been speculation the Pixel Laptop would run Chrome OS, Android could be a much more likely platform.

Five years ago, you could easily pick up a Google laptop. The Pixelbook Go had just launched, and even the original Pixelbook was still holding its own. But in the years since, it’s felt like Google’s interest in the form factor has waned — we never did get a proper Pixelbook 2, and the Pixel Tablet arrived without an official keyboard. While the Pixel Tablet 2 sounds like it could finally remedy that keyboard oversight, Google is reportedly also working on another return to this form factor, as we hear about development of a Pixel Laptop.

Google has supposedly green-lit plans for a high-end, premium laptop featuring Pixel branding, according to Android Headlines. While the site affirms that development is underway and Google has assigned a team dedicated to this project codenamed “Snowy,” that’s about the extent of what this report covers.




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