We purchased the Google Pixelbook Go so that our expert reviewer could thoroughly test and review it. Read on for our full product review.

Chromebooks have a precarious position in the laptop market. While Chrome OS may meet the needs of many users, they can’t handle every task that a Windows or Mac OS laptop can. Chromebooks have also been reasonably priced for most of their history, consistently sitting in the sub-$500 range.

Here’s Google’s problem, though. It wants everyone to see Chromebooks as beautiful, capable devices, so it’s taken matters into its own hands in recent years and started making its own. Google has done some great work with the hardware and industrial design, but these devices have pushed the price points of its Chromebooks (particularly the original Pixelbook) into dangerous territory, where they now compete with many very capable laptops.

The Google Pixelbook Go, on the other hand, finds a more palatable middle ground. It’s a very solid, thoughtfully designed, and extremely portable device that’s a bit cheaper. Some of the higher-spec models may suffer from the same issue, but overall there’s a lot to like here. Let’s take a look at what the Pixelbook Go does well, and what it still needs to work on.