Googlebook

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.

This link crashes my phone browser :-)

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

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

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

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

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

Why does this kind of thing need new hardware? The stuff I saw here could be apps running on any OS.

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

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.

This will be killed off in 18 months. Just like every other Google project that doesnt involve ads or tracking.

Hey Google: please control my computer.

It's just a bunch of gobbledygook.

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.

Is this going to be running Android?

Something I appreciate about ChromeOS is that updates are basically invisible. I'm worried they're gonna fuck up and overcomplicate something simple by having it run full-blown Android.

Just think of all the times that you're happily using a browser and now these sites are going to demand you install an app after they detected you can because of the user agent. Ugh.

before clicking I thought this was gonna be some sort of a hardware innovation, TPU in a laptop for local AI type of product but oh well.

Can't imagine this'll help the RAM shortage.

Good lord please do not use a Tensor processor.

They weren't feeling "book.google"?

The site crashes on my 2020 iPhone SE.

no specs given. COOL.

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!"

Is this the new Centrino?

Shoulda called it the Bookgle

Will it have a bootloader unlocked???

DOA

I used to use Chromebooks as a souped-up iPad with Linux terminal support.

They missed a great opportunity to create a special user interface experience supporting multiple tasks (e.g. Gemini-CLI, anti gravity, Gemini-chat, browser) while sharing the same context . It could have been an awesome developer device . Imagine virtual desktops all sharing the same context with various tools : Gemini-CLI working on infra and artifacts, Antigravity running development , Gemini chat generating graphics assets. Hardware enabled with special shared memory / NPU.

Instead, I see a Chromebook with the nagging MS Edge “right click for copilot”.

Horrible computer

That's a lotta Os!

Google is so lost

If it runs vim. I can take it.

RIP Apple.

For those wondering about the OS:

"We’re bringing together the best of Android, which comes with powerful apps on Google Play and a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence, and ChromeOS, which comes with the world’s most popular browser."

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android...

Many have tried desk/laptop and phone integration before, but it never seems to work smoothly, which surprises me because it doesn't seem that hard, at least to run phone apps on the larger screen (with some icon modification, etc.); and it doesn't stick as a feature, which surprises me because I'd think almost anyone would want to easily integrate the two.

I wonder why this time will be different? Is there demand now? Does Google have some trick up their sleeve? Do they have a universal development platform that makes it easy to write apps for both platforms?

I can’t wait to get one! Growing up with the star trek series, it all seems to be coming together now.

SpyBook was taken?

This looks like a better announcement page: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android...

Is this a rebranding of Chromebook Plus? For those who haven't been following the laptop form factor recently, Chromebook Pluses with Mediatek Kompanio Ultra SoCs are the best deals in laptops today. If this is just a Chromebook Plus with a fashion light bar, I'm not interested.

> 8GB RAM.

Oh god, it's a curse. In 2026 we should be getting laptops with 128 GB of RAM. Instead we get some "new model" over and over, with 8GB.

So it's just an even more enshittified chromebook?

Are Google PMs really just saying "let's take existing product and shove AI into it"?

Price will make or break this. Nothing else.

Let me elaborate if it isn't obvious. If it is higher, people will just use their regular laptops ie. there will be no use case. If it is low, it will find it's use. Like when I am travelling, this would be amazing.

This isn’t constructive at all but I can’t stop laughing

Meh stuff this, no left most fn key, don't even know if there's half height inverted-t arrangement, bleh.

> We’re working with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make the first Googlebooks.

I'm sorry but these Taiwanese brands Acer and Asus are the bottom of the barrel. Bad build quality, clunky keyboard, bad speakers, everything plastic etc I never had a "premium" experience ever having the luck using one. They just can't make something simple as a Macbook Air/Neo

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

TrojanBook

Why would anyone trust Google to support these devices long-term, even ignoring all the privacy concerns that come with using Google products and services? The KilledByGoogle website should be enough of a warning sign against this company, and with rising hardware costs... this just seems dead on-arrival to me.