Tech Advisor - UK (2020-02)

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 21 have commercially available production equipment to read and write data. It’s also not quite cle ...

22 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW Google Pixelbook Go E ight years into the Chromebook’s existence, the category is still d ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 23 Google’s Senior Director of Product Management for Create Hardware. Enter the Pixelbook Go, a la ...

24 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW £629: Core m3-8100Y, 8GB RAM, 64GB SSD, Full HD display £829 (our review unit): Core i5-8 ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 25 fingerprints pretty well, looking at worst like faint smudges rather than smears. Reasonable peo ...

26 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW Google designed the ribbed texture on the back of Pixelbook Go to make the laptop easier ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 27 The Hush Keys on the Pixelbook Go are indeed quiet, and the travel, while just 19mm, is surprisi ...

28 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW like I’m typing on rocks. The ones in the midrange Chromebooks are generally better. The ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 29 but compared to the chips in most other Chromebooks we’ve tested, it’s a solid offering – certai ...

30 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW The Pixelbook Go jumps ahead of the pack in the Basemark test suite, led only by a Chrome ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 31 middle of the pack and the leader. Mozilla developed the Kraken JavaScript benchmark to measure ...

32 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW Specifications 13.3in Full HD (1,920x1,080; 166ppi) LCD touchscreen display Chrome OS In ...

JANUARY 2020 REVIEW: WINDOWS 10 NOVEMBER UPDATE MICROSOFT’S LATEST HARDWARE REVEALED MEET THE SURFACE 2020 LINE-UP BEST SMARTPHO ...

34 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW Google Pixel 4 XL T he Google Pixel 4 XL can lay claim to the only real smartphone breakt ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 35 limiting how often I need to tap the screen. Before you even unlock it, the Pixel 4 XL exudes fu ...

36 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW bottom edge, and from afar, the Pixel 4 XL will look more like a budget phone than a prem ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 37 glass back to the polished aluminium sides, there isn’t a speck of gloss apart from the front an ...

38 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW don’t understand the decision here. It makes it feel like Google is shortchanging its cus ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 39 has, and only the LG G8 with its time-of-flight sensor has something similar. That means after m ...

40 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW of privacy and security, it’s a glaring omission in an otherwise welcome feature. Equally ...