![]() ![]() Then again without the Mac or Windows store on Chrome OS you won’t want to buy the Slate for gaming anyway, but anything in the Play Store is at your disposal. It’s hard to say what this is down to, though high-end games like Asphalt 9 ran fine on our Core i5 unit. We didn’t come across any performance hiccups with our use, but it wouldn’t run GFXBench’s high-tier graphics tests, something modern phones half the price have no trouble with. The i5 Slate recorded a multi-core Geekbench 4 score of 8071 (for comparison this is just under what a flagship Android phone with a Snapdragon 845 records). This is unacceptable on a product of this price. We found some apps with notifications that should peep and disappear didn’t, and reshaping windows often crashed the app or was painfully, frame by frame slow. Things get buggier when you don’t expect with using Android apps on top of Chrome OS. ![]() This is the strength of expensive Chrome OS hardware. Chrome tabs, as you’d expect, ran absolutely fluid with no stutter or RAM hogging like the program tends to on other OSs. We received the £969/$999 Core i5 model which has 8GB RAM and 128GB storage and it ran absolutely fine. Adding £100/$100 to the price gets you it with double the RAM and storage but we still wouldn’t recommend it. Simply do not buy this version if you want anything approaching good performance. This Celeron 3965Y 1500MHz processor is woefully underpowered, and we’d say this for a device half the price. You should not buy the low end one, which is £549/$599 for a measly 4GB RAM and 32GB storage with an Intel Celeron processor. There are annoyingly five different versions to choose from. The key thing to consider is which Slate is which version to buy. Unfortunately the answer is no, and that’s partly because we aren’t sure what it was designed to do in the first place. With the Pixel Slate we need to ask if it is good at what it’s designed to do. ![]() This question is not only becoming a tad boring, it’s also the wrong question to be asking. If you must have this form factor, get a Surface Pro instead.Įver since Apple released the first iPad Pro in 2015 we’ve been wondering if a tablet can replace a laptop. It’s too expensive and has too many issues to fully recommend unless you have low end needs or want the only Chrome OS tablet Google makes. If you dive fully into Chrome OS with the keyboard cover then it can – for most basic tasks – be used as though a Windows or Mac might be, with Android apps filling in the software blanks.īut the weak processing power of the low end models, expense of the keyboard, lacklustre tablet mode and buggy Play Store integration mean this is a messy user experience. The Pixel Slate is a frustrating device to use and a hard product to score. ![]()
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