A products measure isnt the features but the benefits you receive.

I purchased the laptop from local dealer DC Computers in late-August 2014 for a few hundred dollars more.

The buyers interest was my own: Mac, large SSD, and extended warranty (expires April 2017).

She moves from iPad Air, which has been, since September 2014, her PCand that experience should be another story (be patient).

If time travel was possible, I would keep, rather than sell, my Chromebook Pixel early last summer.

The Chromie lifestyle suits me best, and I am excited to be back to it.

However, in December, when reviewing the tech products that changed my digital lifestyle last year, including the switch to Apples platforms: I cant imagine using anything else.

Microsoft offers the best font-rendering technology on flat screens, and I decided to switch platforms in early summer.

I saw in Nokia Lumia Icon and Surface Pro 3 opportunity to improve my impaired work-writing situation and to reconnect with the Windows platform and my core audience of Microsoft users.

I enjoyed Modern UI but not that the most-necessary applications required the older desktop motif.

At the end of August 2014, I sold the Microsoft tablet to a father, for his son entering college; my sister bought the Icon.

I used the proceeds to add MacBook Pro and iPhone 6 to iPad Air and an Apple lifestyle.

But over the nearly four-following months, I discovered that.

No other Chromebook provided sharp enough, or bright enough, display for my reading and writing enjoyment.

Had my decision to leave Microsoft products come a few weeks later, Chromebook 2 would have appeared as the option it is today.

HD, IPS display sets the Toshiba apart from other Chrome OS notebooks.

Performance isnt as smooth as the MacBook Pro, yet I am more productive.

Chromebook keeps your fingers largely in the same plane and the eyes, too, but in more elevated spacial relation.

Because you work with tabs at the top of the screen, your eyes generally look up, rather than down or acrossdepending on where is the OS X dock.

My expectations were low, having read numerous meh reviews about the tablet.

Short answer for today: Google apps integration and information utility.

Had I been as satisfied as expected with my renewed Apple lifestyle, a switch would have been a passing fancy.

But two days using the laptop had me looking at going Google.

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