The black XL has a much better feel than Panda. Panda is striking to look at but the brushed metal effect on the black feels so much more premium.
Yeah I'd heard this and even noticed it myself when I was in Currys buying my Pixelbook.
Some Currys have Carphonewarehouse's built into them as they're sister companies, and I was mulling round the phones looking to get attention from someone to exchange my XL for reg size.
A google rep came towards me (these reps aren't normally around in these stores) and she was lovely. She was made up I was buying a Pixelbook and even pretended in her regional WhatsApp group that she'd made a sale. In reality I was walking in and buying one regardless, but I wasn't going to stop her as she was so nice.
Said she used to be an MD in a company and got made redundant and signed up to be a rep for three months over Christmas. She didn't really like it. I was like, sign me up!! Haha.
Anyway, I've waffled haha.
Point of my story is once I'd sorted the Pixelbook, I went back to the CPW section with her and asked to swap out my XL for a smaller Pixel. She couldn't help as they only had black in the smaller Pixel and she was convincing me to go for that and whipped her smaller black 2 out of her pocket for me to look at. It definitely felt good in the hand. Much better than the white, but the white just looks better!