The Pixelbook comes home, jumping headlong into Google's ecosystem

The Pixelbook, announced Wednesday at Google's hardware event in San Francisco, is the third generation of Google's premium Chromebook Pixel. Up to now, the laptops lived apart from Google's other products, isolated in Chrome OS. The Pixelbook is the first Chromebook that's tied closely to major parts of Google's ecosystem, such as Google Assistant and the Google Play Store. It shows new potential for Chromebooks, and new freedom for Google products formerly stuck on small, limited smartphones and tablets. "The laptop experience hasn't changed that much, but how we use technology definitely has," said Google's Matt Voukun at the event.