As a business aircraft, those airliner qualities proved particularly beneficial: The Legacy offered a huge cabin, midsize jet price tag, reliability, maintainability and excellent operating economy.

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Stephen Baker, an analyst at research firm NPD, said Google is "certainly out in front of a number of trends that will be impacting the market, " but the Chromebook Pixel's price tag was "a big jump" from the earlier generation of Chromebooks and the Chrome operating system doesn't appear ready to compete head-on with Apple laptops or those powered by Windows 8.

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