With refreshes imminent, there’s little have to hold promoting a $1300 18-month-old Chromebook.
After discontinuing the lower-end $999 model again in April, Google has taken the axe to the final remaining Chromebook Pixel mannequin it was promoting. The upper-end $1299 model of the Chromebook Pixel 2015 is not on sale from the Google Retailer or the handful of shops that have been nonetheless promoting the prohibitively costly laptop computer, and VentureBeat acquired a press release from Google indicating that it is not coming again.
At $1299, the newest mannequin of the Chromebook Pixel wasn’t even an awesome buy again when it was introduced in February 2015 — however 18 months after it was first launched it did not make sense for anybody to purchase. Google’s doing everybody a favor by slicing off gross sales of such an previous system, notably because the volumes actually could not have been robust at that worth or this late in its lifespan.
This Fall can be a good time to launch a brand new Chromebook Pixel
It additionally is sensible for the previous Chromebook Pixel to gracefully fade away with a view to probably get replaced by a recent mannequin. As we quickly strategy the fourth quarter, a time by which Google sometimes unveils its newest hardware, it would not in any respect be shocking to see a refresh of the Chromebook Pixel line — be it at a excessive or extra accessible worth — alongside new phones and another initiatives Google is presently engaged on.
Although the Pixel C pill was an fascinating little tangent late final yr, we’re all to see what Google has in retailer for its Chromebook Pixel line now that Android apps are presently a part of the Developer Channel of Chrome OS. Expectations are that we cannot have to attend lengthy to listen to for positive.