Google Chromebook Pixel Coming Later this Year: Report

Google Chromebook Pixel

     Google has built a self-branded touch screen–equipped Chromebook—a laptop that runs its Chrome operating system—according to multiple sources. Such devices would help Google to even better compete against laptops running Microsoft's Windows 8, which increasingly feature touch screens.

Google will begin selling its own Chromebooks "later this year," the Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 20, adding that it's unclear which of Google's hardware partners it's working with to manufacture the devices and that a Google spokesperson declined to comment.

The report follows what is said to have been a leak of promotional video featuring the Chromebook, Fast Company which, if the video is legit, will be called the Pixel and will feature a screen resolution of 2560 by 1700 pixels.

The video showed up on the Google Plus site of Chrome expert Francois Beaufort,  reported Feb. 6. The site explained that "Beaufort found the video on a Vimeo channel owned by Slinky.me, whose CEO Victor Koch is a former Google engineer."