![]() Given the MSRPs of past Pixel laptops, you might expect this is shaping up to be one costly little device, and while not cheap, Google's planned pricing is still competitive: Bison is pegged to start at $799. ![]() Google plans to fit all of this in a form factor under 10mm in thickness, notably thinner than the aforementioned Apple ultraportable. The keyboard will be backlit, and the glass trackpad will use haptic and force detection similar to the MacBook. It will also feature a fingerprint scanner, two USB-C ports, a 3.5mm jack (!), a host of sensors, stylus support (a Wacom pen will be sold separately), stereo speakers, quad microphones, and a battery that will last around 10 hours. This seems to suggest there will be two models. Powering it will be either an Intel m3 or i5 Core processor with 32 or 128GB of storage and 8 or 16GB of RAM. It's unclear to us if this means Bison will be a Lenovo Yoga-style convertible device or a detachable like Microsoft's Surface Book, but I'm personally leaning on the former given how thin it is. So, let's dive in.īison is planned as an ultra-thin laptop with a 12.3" display, but Google also wants it to support a "tablet" mode. As such, we're not assigning a number to this one - it's just not a good fit for that system. And despite all of our asterisking in regard to future uncertainty, we are exceptionally confident that the information and sources we're working from are legitimate and trustworthy. But we're going to share what we can today because it's just too interesting not to. ![]() Let alone Bison's release being a certainty, especially if Andromeda runs into delays or the OS project sees a change of direction. Given it's a year or more from its planned release, Bison could evolve substantially or even be canceled - so we want to be absolutely clear when we say that specifications are not set in stone. We also believe Bison's specifications, while we will provide them, are very much subject to change. We are unable to share any primary source materials, including renders of any hardware. (This lines up with the narrative The Wall Street Journal presented in its exclusive about the merge effort last year, in which laptops were specifically singled out as the merged OS's first big target.)īut before we get into details, let's discuss our confidence in this rumor. As such, it would be more accurate to say Bison will run Android than Chrome OS, and could finally be Google's internal commitment to releasing Andromeda. Android apps on Chrome OS descended from the ARC project, while Andromeda is a much larger, more ambitious initiative that is being pursued via merging Chrome features into Android, not vice versa. We are also confident that Andromeda is a completely distinct effort from Google's current campaign to bring Android apps to Chromebooks, and that Bison would not be marketed as a Chromebook. We are extremely confident Google plans for the device to run Andromeda. Bison, then, would be the culmination of years of work by Google's Pixel team and Google's Android and Chrome OS teams. The project, known internally as 'Bison' and by the informal nickname 'Pixel 3,' will likely be the first brand-new device to showcase Google's combined Android / Chrome OS 'Andromeda' operating system in a laptop form factor. Two independent and reliable sources have confirmed to us that Google is planning a new Pixel laptop to be released in Q3 2017.
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