Pixel Tablet 2023 review

tl;dr buy if a google tragic, else for almost any conceivable use any recent ipad is better.

The one thing Android gets right, and the sole reason I bought this tablet, is easy multi-user accounts. Everything else… not so much.

Performance: Fast enough for regular use, but feels both slightly slower and laggier than my pixel 7 pro. Its the same chip, but with less memory and its probably a cheaper lower binned version of the G2 processor.

However, if you want to edit videos or audio, than this tablet isn’t for you. Just stop reading and buy an ipad. This is a newspaper reading photo browsing video watching machine.

The lag isn’t just perceptual - a lot of the reviews blamed its lag and sometimes a a jitterness on it being a 60hz screen, but I have a 2020 ipad air which is also 60hz but feels faster and smoother.

In situations where both the pixel and ipad are fast enough - display a simple web page and sroll up and down, when scrolling fast you see dropped frames on the pixel tablet - the ipad does some processing magic to make its 60hz screen feel smoother.

Display: Is fine, though I wish the screen ration was was closer to the ipad’s one. Its a bit too narrow to hold vertically.

Case: This really needs a case, its a bit slippery and pretty thin - compared an ipad air it felt fragile. Even putting it down on a table you have to be careful. It just doesn’t have a nice solid feel.

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