I love this Just Black i5 8gb 128gb Pixelbook Go.  It reminds me of 2006 Black Macbook I really enjoyed for many years.  It has a clean simple appearance and is very comfortable to hold and carry.  It’s a minimalist design with everything I need and nothing I don’t.  All its components are of good to excellent quality and well matched.  Its performance is very good for the vast majority of my needs, and when I push it to the edge it starts to slow down, but still does the job with a decent user experience – just enough with nothing wasted. I like that, and it gets me a lot.- The lightest and most compact 13" notebook I've ever owned.- Terrific all day battery life and silent cool operation.- A nice bright color accurate touch screen with good resolution.- Great video conferencing / web meeting capability- Great speakers and sound- A terrific easy to read, backlit keyboard that’s quiet and a pleasure to type on- A very good precision glass trackpad with excellent feel and predictable soft clicks- Two full function (power, video, data) USB-C ports (one on each side)- Enough CPU, memory, and storage for a great user experience for almost everything I use it for- Excellent materials, fit, finish, and design with well-integrated hardware and software- A price I can live withThere is no leading edge technology, it doesn't have the highest performance or capacity or the most features, and it's not the cheapest.  One or more of these things may rule it out as a good option for you.  As a tech junkie I'm surprised it didn't for me.But it has no problem handling a dozen or more Chrome tabs/windows, a few Android apps and a couple Linux apps.  Connecting it to a USB-C dock driving two additional FHD displays, Gigabit Ethernet, Webcam, Mic, Headset, Speakers, Keyboard, Mouse, and more starts to tax the CPU. But the only time I notice it slow down is during high speed and volume data or video transmissions – then network file copies will slow down and moving windows around additional screens becomes less smooth, but it's still a decent user experience.  And I don't end up pushing it that far very often.For me, the performance and features it does have, combined with a minimalist flavor, and great design and integration, makes it worth the premium price.*UPDATE* - Google by default had hyper threading disabled which only ran a single thread on each of the two cores.  By enabling hyper threading via flags, it used 2 threads per core for a total of 4 threads, and the few performance issues I had when I pushed it disappeared.