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what a stupid name
Is this the new Centrino?
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.
That's a lotta Os!
> 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
"open apps from your phone on your laptop" only thing there that I thought: "that would be pretty awesome ngl." It would be a way to easily test android apps in a real environment with an actual large screen. Yes, I know android studio has a good emulator but emulators are still a horrible platform compared to the real thing. Particularly the networking there is nothing like how it works in the real world.
I'd be interested in knowing the specs, more about the OS, software details, platform... A laptop integration like this based on android is cool to me. I couldn't care less about the AI crap though. This is a fascinating concept because phones themselves can provide a full desktop experience when you plug them into a screen. So could help encourage mobile computing more.
This isn’t constructive at all but I can’t stop laughing
> Unbox it this fall.
It does feel as if AI wrote that copy. Then again, this looks like a slop making machine; a slop landing page seems weirdly appropriate. Maybe no human is meant to look at this announcement for more than a few seconds.
SpyBook was taken?
Horrible computer
I've read hundreds of comments about this and not a single one was positive.
It could just be me, but the usecases they're trying to solve for always seem... out of touch from reality.
Either they live in their own bubbles where their lives revolve around constant shopping, traveling, throwing parties, and doing creative work...
Or they're not bothering to do basic observational research around how normal people live.
Google is so lost
No spec, no price. Who are the marketing people coming up with these shitty announcements?
Has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with Google's unchecked monopolism
Google never sold through their first production run of Chromebook Pixels. Will prediction markets take bets on when will end up at https://killedbygoogle.com?
"Googlebook, because lets face it, your parents are only watching YouTube anyway"
I don't think the strategy of trying to figure out what an "AI laptop" should be will work. The best bet is to see what use cases organically emerge from the current tech, figure out the biggest gaps, and design a product around that. This is more like they just took "AI" plus "Laptop" and came up with a grab-bag list of cool sounding features, like "custom widgets".
Why does this kind of thing need new hardware? The stuff I saw here could be apps running on any OS.
I like the footnote:
> 1. Check responses.
Eh sure. Everyone will totally check the vibe coded "widget". Is this really all that's necessary to discount all responsibility when that widget deletes your disk and kills your grandmother?
This will be killed off in 18 months. Just like every other Google project that doesnt involve ads or tracking.
I don’t even know who this is marketed towards.
If their intention is to target the general public, then I think they're out of touch with reality, and it doesn’t seem targeted at AI enthusiasts either.
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”.
RIP Apple.
I can’t wait to get one! Growing up with the star trek series, it all seems to be coming together now.
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.
TrojanBook
Third time’s a charm I guess
Im more interested if we'll be able to load this OS on old Windows laptops or if it's hardware locked via software checks.
They accidentally started selling these early! You can pick one up right now, here: https://www.google.com/chromebook/
Googlebook. I wonder how much some marketroid was paid for that name. Wow.
A data-harvesting software product delivered as hardware. Why would anyone actually want to purchase this?
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"?
no specs given. COOL.
I clicked on the link hoping to find out the price first thing so I could compare it to Apple Neo's price. Didn't find price anywhere. Also, is an AI subscription required for this?
How much?
No thanks!
I can’t really tell who this is for, no specs even listed that I can find, at first I thought it was going to be for running local models based on the copy but after a moment of sobriety and knowing Google clearly this is just a consumer device that they will fail to support in a couple years.
With the over-reliance on AI, this looks like a veritable slop-machine, designed to create and consume slop as a primary activity. Good job Google.
pretty cool design!
Meh stuff this, no left most fn key, don't even know if there's half height inverted-t arrangement, bleh.
Google just give up making hardware ffs. I'm still annoyed that my Fitbit no longer works with my Google workspace account.
See you soon... https://killedbygoogle.com
goodbye Apple.
aka cringebook
> Intelligence is the new spec.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED how bad google is at copywriting, and it clearly not mattering.
Do. Not. Want. Please keep your security nightmare out of the OS.
If it runs vim. I can take it.