Google hasn’t always been known for making breathtaking hardware, but today’s announcement of the Chromebook Pixel – arguably one of the best-looking laptops ever made, if nothing else – means that may no longer be the case. Still, you can’t be blamed for being wary of shelling out a decent chunk of money on Google’s first foray into laptops, let alone a Chromebook of all things, so here’s a preliminary look at how the Chromebook Pixel stacks up against two prominent rivals in the computing space: the stock version of Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Air and Microsoft’s Surface Pr