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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.

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A tech addict from about the age of three (seriously, he's got the VHS tapes to prove it), Tom's been writing about gadgets, games and everything in between for the past decade, with a slight diversion into the world of automotive in between. As Deputy Editor, Tom keeps the website ticking along, jam-packed with the hottest gadget news and reviews.  When he's not on the road attending launch events, you can usually find him scouring the web for the latest news, to feed Stuff readers' insatiable appetite for tech.

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Smartphones/tablets/computing, cameras, home cinema, automotive, virtual reality, gaming