![]() At 11.4 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches, it’s actually a bit larger than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, and the extra tenths of an inch matter when you’re already pushing the limits of comfort. While the square display corners feel a bit antiquated in an age of rounded corners, you certainly won’t mind looking at it for hours on end, especially if you’re filling some of that time with movie-watching. It’s very bright (over 500 nits maximum in my testing), and its colors are vibrant. Google says the LCD display covers 72 percent of NTSC, a pretty useless spec in an sRGB and DCI-P3 world, but the Pixel Slate won’t offend critical eyes. With a 3000×2000 resolution, it’s sharper than the 2400×1600 PixelBook and the 2732×2048 iPad Pro, with an impressive 293 pixels per inch (though your eyes won’t really notice). The Pixel Slate has a 12.3-inch “molecular” display, a bit of Apple-style marketing to play up its 6 million pixels. It’s not glass, but fingerprints are still a thing on the Pixel Slate. Google calls it midnight blue, and it switches from deep blue to rich black to iridescent depending on the reflection off of your fingerprints, which are quite visible on the back despite a matte finish. ![]() Still, the Pixel Slate’s single color is undeniably a cool one. The only cosmetic similarity the Pixel Slate lacks is a two-tone back, which would have been a classy addition to the otherwise plain aesthetic. It looks a little like a giant Pixel 2, right down to the dust-trapping speaker grilles flanking either end of the screen and the missing headphone jack. The Pixel Slate is also very much a Google device. The Pixel Slate has enough magnets to stick it to the front of a refrigerator. And they both have enough embedded magnets to stick to a refrigerator door. They both have gorgeous 12-inch-plus screens that feel somewhat smaller than they are. ![]() They both have a flat back and slim, uniform bezels, so orientation isn’t an issue. It’s impossible to look at the Google Pixel Slate and not see shades of the iPad Pro. Unfortunately, LTE isn’t an option on any of configs, which makes the Pixel Slate less of a road warrior than the iPad Pro or Surface Pro. I tested the $999 Core i5 model with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which represents the mid-point between the $599 entry-level model and the $1,599 top-of-the-line model. ![]()
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