Google Pixelbook review: Android and Google Assistant transform the Chromebook

The Pixelbook is Google's latest attempt to make the Chromebook cool. Despite two prior generations of flagship Chromebook Pixels and a handful of high-end copycats from other manufacturers, the Chromebook category remains in a rut. Typecast as cheap, disposable browsing machines or easily locked-down classroom computers, Google hasn't figured out how to make the Chromebook essential in the same way the smartphone is for most people. Google's answer is to make the Pixelbook more like a smartphone. It joins the growing list of Chromebook models that support Android apps.