Googlebook

No thanks. Google is heading for a similar closed ecosystem setup as Apple.

Except given their recent behaviour I have very little trust that they won't execute that in the most user hostile fashion they can come up with.

I’m waiting on these to be 70% off. Assuming an open boot loader or anyway to run Linux on it, looks like a clean computer.

I don’t know what normal person wants this though. The Neo is enough for most, and if I need more I’m probably going to want a real os. Not ChromeOS++

The interesting thing to me is that this is Android based if I understand correctly. The Google TV Android based experience is very good, I've been wanting a good Android based desktop OS since forever.

To me, everything about this seems AI-generated. What else but a LLM could have come up with these features and the name?

DOA right? Since they don't have any good will that they won't just drop support next year?

Interesting product, horrible name.

Hey Google, take the cue from Microslops debacle with the "agentic" Windows : Nobody asked for this!

Does it use ChromeOS or Android? I read an unreliable comment in Reddit that Google may be forced to sell ChromeOS to satisfy antitrust lawsuit. The comment provided zero evidence for the conjecture.

Just a little too late for school. The product probably doesn't even exist. They're screaming bc of the Nep.

> Designed for Gemini Intelligence

Zero chance in hell this surveillance device comes into my home.

Is this the end of Linux powered Chromebooks?

Put a TPU in this and I’ll buy it!

Looks like they rushed the release or didn't let the LLM proofread: "Öffne Apps von deinem Android-Smartphone auf deinem Latop – ohne Installation"

Such a nice Latop!

Google Engineers don't even the other *books much for work, if they don't exclusively dogfood their own products, you know they don't have much faith to keep it going. Likewise their own phones.

A fun name... (I wonder how many non-native English speakers realize that the two occurrences of 'oo' in 'googlebook' are not pronounced the same.)

This link crashes my phone browser :-)

no specs given. COOL.

So this is replacing the "Chromebook Plus" line of AI-certified laptops, and also adding new Google hardware replacing the abandoned Google Pixel Slate/Chromebook Pixel?

How long will this be supported until it is in the google graveyard though?

man, even google product videos show a "watch this video on youtube". can't link anything anymore

It's like genetic recombination: take the worst of Apple and the worst of Microsoft and you get... this!

Their history of committment in supporting their hardware is too far from pleasing. I wouldn't touch Google hardware again (other than Pixels) with the tip of my toe.

Who is this for? This is why I like Apple, when they release hardware you see exactly who it is made for in the marketing copy

They are so bad at product

All the shots at the name apart I think this is a very good strategic move. The other frontier labs would die to have this level of surface available for their models as a testing ground, with the current state of things on Apple side the ChatGPT on MacOS integration is probably the best everyone will get for a good time on how a full integration of LLM model with OS could really looks like.

Agents will need a different level of understanding of your activities across different surfaces to act effectively, IMHO the OS is the perfect place to offer it.

What pricepoint is this targeting? Is this an Android MacBook Neo? It looks like it's a tablet (phone OS) with a keyboard.

Screenshots say Sporify. Probably a human made typo in the mockups - refreshing!

Might be a good laptop, but we're trying to use less and less Google. I feel like the name isn't working in it's advantage.

The fact the team behind this came up with the name "Googlebook" doesn't give me a great confidence in the rest of the product.

So...it's a Chromebook. With "ai".

We should start betting how long it's going to take Google to kill it.

a little O/T, but i suspect these screenshots might be some of the first look at the upcoming aluminiumOS.

Is this ... an Android laptop? I can't recall if Files icon on ChromeOS matches the Android version.

Can we replace the splash page with this blog post? https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android...

I don’t think any portable laptop can beat the MacBook Neo on price and value this year.

So its the same you can do with using any AI app, but they make you buy an inferior notebook (compared to macbooks)

It looks great. If the price is good, I think it will sell well. The only thing holding it back is Google’s own reputation of canceling things so rapidly.

The AI device thing reeks of 2024.

Nobody wants AI embedded into the OS spying on you every move.

"Intelligence is the new spec" then proceeds to show shopping ads and duolingo

WTF is a Googlebook? "Hey buddy, you got a little googlebook hanging out of your nose, a little nasty looking googlebook. Don't eat it, that's so gross!"

Hey Google: please control my computer.

It's just a bunch of gobbledygook.

Is this going to be running Android?

DOA

I'd buy it, but for me, Google lost it's credibility when they made Chromebook on an a Linux kernel but kept the specs too low, and even made sure to hijack the market by providing for free to schools

This is just depressing to me. I don't really know why.