It’s a Google tablet, which feels both familiar and a little different.
Google’s Pixel C — its first completely in-house tablet — is now shipping. And as it’s been more than a year since we’ve had a new Google tablet — the HTC Nexus 9 was the previous one — a lot of folks are looking at this one as their next not-quite-a-laptop solution.
The Pixel C, as you’ll recall, is a 10.2-inch tablet with a slightly strange 1:√2 — that’s the square root of 2 — aspect ratio. Well, it’s odd for tablets, perfectly normal for a standard sheet of paper, which is what Google was going for. (It also means that you have the same aspect ratio when the display is chopped in half, which makes perfect sense for side-by-side windows, which Android doesn’t have but eventually will at some point. But we digress.) It’s powered by the NVIDIA Tegra X1 processor with a Maxwell GPU and 3GB of RAM, and has a 2560×1800 resolution.
It’s an impressive, but also confounding, tablet.
We’ve been poring over the Pixel C for a bit now and have some initial thoughts. (And a few answers that came from a recent Reddit AMA with the Pixel C team.)