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.

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.

This is going to be called the Slopbook, I’m calling it now.

Why even bother announcing an hardware product if you are not even going to mention the specs?

We are supposed to buy this because.. AI?

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.

Maybe you can install Linux on one of these things, and turn it into something useful and not choke-full of spyware.

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.

I wonder why they think this will go better than the Pixelbook did

This is Google reacting to:

- laptop manufacturers and customers preferring Linux over Googles os shenanigans

- Apple Unified Business Platform, that is going to take an enormous piece of the enterprise pie

I guess it's just mobile chip and everything AI related connects directly to google services through internet.

I love my Chromebook, huge fan. GoogleBook seems objectively bad.

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?

They are so bad at product

There must be such a disconnection between the general people and more technical oriented people. I would never ever buy such a laptop. The reasons are very simple:

- it's owned by Google. Google is the worst tech company out there to trust your data

- it has AI all over the place. Overuse of AI depresses me. And a laptop is something very personal to me. I don't want to be depressed every time i open my laptop

- the "files" functionality is cloud-based. That's insane. I don't want my files in the "cloud". I want a file system

I run linux, and still own Macs (because their hardware is great on laptops). Of course I'm not the target audience. But still.

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.)

HN always disappoints me with these kind of threads, with all the generic disappointment and Google scepticism dominating the conversation.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still disappointed. But mainly because it looks so superficial. I was trying to work out what's new and it just looks like an Android device (or Chrome? I can't tell) with some party trick Gemini features sprinkled on it. There isn't anything technically interesting here.

I'm still waiting for someone to ship a truly AI native device - something with the right sandboxing and UI layers to let an AI model truly understand and work with the device natively, but safely. The OS SDK itself should natively incorporate all these elements as first class primitives. And the model would be trained heavily to explicitly understand and work well with them.

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!

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.

I genuinely though this was an April fools joke, then remembered we're in May. This is bad.

Apple’s operating systems have fantastic interoperability and familiar UX. There’s no ads bugging you at every step, and things seem to just work. (for most users)

This keeps users locked in.

Then there’s this thing. Who is this even for?! How does it fit into the ecosystem? It’s another rebrand instead of what was needed which was an ecosystem upgrade.

We started taking the phones out of schools, so I guess now we are building them back into education laptops instead?

I just want to state for the record that this will fail harder than Google Plus.

Finally, the laptop I've been waiting for, I can use Gemini to ask it the difference between hotdog or not hotdog.

Is this a ChromeOS ad or a Google manufactured laptop?

Google really struggles with product. Money doesn't buy everything.

Too many syllables.

Judging by the poor hardware quality of some Google Pixel generations, I'm not putting my money anywhere near this thing.

Edit: spelling

Copilot never gave Windows 11 a chance. Now Gemini will do the same to whatever this device is supposed to do.

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.

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

GBook would have been so much nicer.

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.

Is this the end of Linux powered Chromebooks?

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

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.

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

looks nice but, no thanks

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

I wish Google can bring back the OG Pixelbook, where "AI" merely means Google Assistant.

"Chromebook" had a better ring to it.

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

A new laptop powered by AI and they're still showing an apps toolbar....?

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

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

It's just a bunch of gobbledygook.

> powered by premium hardware

It's hard to treat this part seriously while seeing HP logo on the page.

Feeling like no longer personal but AI laptop.

High-end Chromebook done right could be a very good thing for computer security.

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