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Let’s be honest, a laptop is a laptop, at the end of the day not much to them except screen, looks and how it all is put together. I have a windows pc for gaming, but when I want an easy to use all arounder I love using chromebooks. I have a pixel slate but wanted a regular laptop for school work to take with me anywhere I am going to go. Rather than go over another typical laptop review I mean there is really nothing I can add except tell you why I choose it over the competition. What I want in a laptop: looks, good battery life, good keyboard, nice display, thin/light, reliable, good price and decent performance. The go versus: Asus 425/433/434: these are probably the biggest competition in price, looks and performance, The issue with the 434 is the lack of reliability with numerous reports for users. At 3.2 lbs it is kinda heavy, and the 433 has a cheap keyboard deck Hp/Dell 14 inch: I put these both together because they are similar and they both are very heavy approaching closer to 4 lbs. To give you an idea my 15.6 gaming laptop weighs 4.8 lbs. The dell is not very attractive to me and more bland. The HP is attractive but still heavy, not a bad choice, but not the best option IMO. Acer Spin 13: very premium, but more of an industrial design, also heavy, great performance though. UHD display. Pixelbook: probably the best alternative, and checks a lot of boxes but I find the large bezels very dated. Still expensive if you want to buy it new. Samsung plus V2: another good alternative with a metal lid. Under 3 lbs and not bad looking. The bottom portion is plastic and it does feel like it. Plain 1080p panel. The pixelbook go has a good 1080p panel which you don’t find often in chromebooks unfortunately. Outside of the pixelbook the go is the only other one under 2.5 lbs. It is also thin. Slim side bezels. Great speakers and keyboard. The go checks all my boxes for a laptop perfect for this my masters program. When I first heard the go announced I was upset in the pricing, but then I compared it to the competition. At regular price almost all the competition sells at $599. The base pixelbook go that I bought is $649. The go is $50 dollars more but compared to the rivals it has a leg up on build quality and looks with many of them. Now most of the other laptops I mention they have been on sale for significantly lower than msrp so you might want to consider that. There also is no fold-able display like many of the others, which for me has less meaning for the way I use the device. What google did was refine the basic laptop and wrapped it in a pretty bow, which is the same thing that surface laptop, macbook air have done.