Exclusive: Google Pixel Laptop in Development!

Google is finally working on a new high-end laptop that will be under the Pixel branding. According to an internal email, the codename for this laptop is “Snowy,” and it is being compared internally with a number of other high-end laptops. This includes MacBook Pro, Dell XPS, Microsoft Surface Laptop, and the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook.

The project has been greenlit, which means it is beyond the concept phase, and Google now has a dedicated team working on it. So, development should ramp up pretty quickly. The Google Pixel Laptop will have a premium build as the company is looking to target the premium market, which we can also tell by the options that Google has selected to test this laptop against. It will likely run on Chrome OS, though that is not 100% confirmed right now.

We’ll have more information soon as development ramps up for this new Pixel Laptop.

The rebirth of Google Chromebook Pixel?

The first Chromebook that Google ever made, with the “Pixel” branding (in fact, it was the first product using the “Pixel” branding), was the Chromebook Pixel. It was an over-the-top Chromebook that also cost $1,300. For the time, it was pretty overkill in the spec department, with an Intel Core i5-3427U, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB or 64GB SSD inside. However, it also had a beautiful display on board, which was part of the 4:3 aspect ratio display trend.

Since then, Google released a second Chromebook Pixel in 2015, as well as some other lower-end options like the PixelBook in 2017 and the PixelBook Go in 2019. However, that was the last laptop that Google released. So it’s time for a new one.

Time will tell whether this is the rebirth of the Chromebook Pixel, or maybe something better, or if it ever lands on store shelves at all. That is still a possibility, since Google is still in the very early stages of development with this laptop.