Unlike Apple's lightest ultraportable, the Pixel has two USB-C ports, one on each side, as well as a pair of standard USB 3.0 ports and a SD card slot. Like Apple's crazy-thin laptop, the Pixel uses USB-C for charging.

The 2015 Pixel is only the second laptop (after the Apple 12in Retina MacBook) to support USB 3.1 Gen 1 with Type-C connectors. You can use SD cards and USB drives for more local storage. This includes Google Apps for Work users, as long as your administrator hasn't inexplicably disabled Google Drive support. Although aimed at consumers rather than enterprise users, and therefore isn't supported by Google's enterprise tech support, anyone can redeem this offer. Included is 1TB of Google Drive storage free for three years (worth $360 at Google's current consumer pricing). The more expensive Core i7 variant does also have the benefit of a 64GB SSD instead of the 32GB you get with the standard Core i5 model. Plus, its speedy performance could be useful if you're developing an especially demanding app in-house. Other than Polarr, a RAW image processing app, we struggle to think of any webapps that need such processing grunt, but this does at least mean the Pixel is future-proof.

The Core i5 5200U processor and 8GB of memory are more than quick enough for running webapps - the Core i7 5500U and 16GB of RAM in the more expensive version is just overkill.

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