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A source that circumvents Google's decision to prevent non-US people from even reading about the device:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/11/8190513/chromebook-pixel-2...

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This URL works from Germany: http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/

I can see the page from Germany, but the "BUY NOW" button gives me a 404 page in German:

   Die angeforderte URL wurde auf diesem Server nicht 
   gefunden. Weitere Informationen liegen nicht vor.

$999 8 GB RAM, 32 GB SSD

$1,299 16 GB RAM, 64GB SSD

Same here in Canada. Apple do that better.

The 'Buy Now' is giving me a 404 in New Zealand.

I agree that it's really senseless that you can't even look at the product pages if you're outside US. Adding ?gl=US to the end of the URLs works, though.

It's not the product page, it's the store. The product page is at http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/

I meant the individual product pages in the Store. The "Visit the US site instead" link they provide works for the main page, but not the sub-pages for products. I don't know why I can't buy the devices and have them sent to a US address, anyway, for that matter.

I can see the Store page here in the UK. I'm guessing it's UK, US and some other places, but not the rest of the world?

I also assume it's not intentional: they just redirect the US store to local ones.

I'm not sure what you're getting at -- I can see both this link and the OP from Mexico.

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