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@photoben Google Pixel 2 is £800 and faster than the new MacBook (Core i5, 8Gb of RAM), has a better screen than the MacBook (touchscreen, 239 ppi v 227ppi), better battery life than the MacBook (Google says 12 hours but reviewers have got 14, MacBook 9 hours), most reviews say it is subjectively better built and here's the corker: it has TWO USB-C ports on either side, plus two USB 2.0 ports, despite being a machine that is truly designed for the cloud.
Of course it only runs Chrome, so you can undoubtedly do more with the MacBook, but you can do a lot more now with Chrome than you could, including things which solve obvious previous criticisms (Skype, working offline etc). And it weighs a bit more than the MacBook.
Personally I want a nicely built, nicely designed laptop with a good screen, a good keyboard and good battery life for web browsing, emails, that sort of thing. As @kboy says I'm not a pro user. I have a (powerful) desktop Mac for anything like that anyway, it won't be my main machine. So for £250 less than the new MacBook I'm seriously considering the Pixel 2.
@Kirth You can hack the previous model of Pixel to run Linux or Windows 8. I'm now wondering if it would be possible to put OSX on it. Touchscreen Yosemite would be amazing :)