Best Buy has all three Google Pixel Slate variants on sale at a hefty $250 discount

Released less than a year ago, the Pixel Slate will be left without a sequel, as Google’s in-house hardware efforts are shifting squarely towards a rapidly expanding smartphone lineup and high-end laptops that haven’t exactly been able to challenge Apple’s MacBooks in the mainstream tech scene. Of course, the same can definitely be said about the search giant’s Chrome OS-powered 12.3-inch tablet next to the crazy popular iPad family, but at the right price, purchasing a Pixel Slate doesn’t sound like such a bad idea these days.
Apart from more muscle, the Core i5 and i7 configurations come with larger solid-state drives as well, bumping the storage capacity of the entry-level variant from 64 to 128 and 256 gigs respectively. Last but certainly not least, it’s important to highlight the costliest of the three Pixel Slates on sale today packs a whopping 16GB RAM, compared to “only” 8 as far as the other two are concerned.
Coated in “Midnight Blue”, the Chrome OS tablet measures a slender 7mm in depth, tipping the scales at a somewhat cumbersome 731 grams while promising a decent 12 hours of battery life between charges in “mixed” use. Made from premium aluminum, this big guy can run Android apps natively, also having a beautiful “Molecular” display with 3000 x 2000 pixel resolution, dual front-firing speakers, a wide-angle 8MP front camera, fingerprint scanner, and two USB-C ports going for it.