_Does it have a good keyboard??_
(Laptop keyboards seem to become worse as the years go on -- with the exception of macbooks and possibly Thinkpads -- and I'm really hoping that the Chromebook Pixel has a respectable keyboard)
Some of the pictures on Google's site seem to suggest a macbook-like keyboard layout and profile so I'm hopeful that they're comparable.
As long as you don't mind lacking a home, end, pageup, pagedown, F11, F12, or delete key, you should have no trouble using the keyboard.
For a closeup of the keyboard layout: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...
"What's with this ~` key? Nobody uses that, and it offends my designer sensibilities."
I had a Dell like that, and got used to typing $HOME and $(command) rather than ~ and `command`.
My parents have a Toshiba laptop from around 2011, and its keyboard is undescribably atrocious. Poor key layout (small keys & excessive space between keys), overly resistant and springy key dynamics, very slippery key surface, etc.
The best laptop keyboard I've had was the late 90's ~ early 2000's IBM-era thinkpads.
The touchpad clicks really loudly, but the Pixel has a new glass touchpad so that might not be an issue anymore.