Move over MacBook: HP’s Chromebook 13 will impress for less
Pixel power and quality for half the price
So your mates all have MacBooks, and you’ve got no patience for plastic – that rules out ChromeOS, right?
Not if you pick up HP’s newly announced Chromebook 13.
HP has cherry-picked some of the best bits from Google’s top-end Pixel, pumped up the performance, and wrapped everything in an all-metal body.
Better yet, you won’t need to sell a kidney to afford one. Models start at US$499 – half the price of the Pixel.
HP has seriously delivers on looks, with an aluminium finish, soft-touch underside and some properly slick rounded hinges.
It’s super slim at 12.9mm, but HP has still squeezed in two USB Type-C ports for charging or hooking up to a display. There’s an old fashioned standard USB port, too – because let’s face it, 99% of the tech you own still uses it.
Even the basic model has a 1080p screen, An Intel Core M CPU and 4GB RAM, which is easily fast enough for Chrome OS, but the top-spec models are even more drool-worthy.
How does a 3200×1800 screen, 16GB of RAM and the fastest Core M chip around sound? Move over MacBook, we think.
Every model has 32GB of on-board storage and an SD card reader for adding more space if you need it, and should last about 11 hours away from the mains.
If you’re after a super-charged Chrome OS laptop, you can pre-order a Chromebook 13 right now. The first models should start shipping out in May.
Tom Morgan-Freelander
Deputy Editor 
