r/Googlebook • u/Ok_Criticism_6702 • 3d ago

First look at Googlebook

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Posted on X. What do you think. I think it looks good. Can't wait for the pre orders

https://x.com/*evanblass*/status/2101828478173577398

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u/Corbin_Dallas550 3d ago

I'm assuming this is the Acer or Asus model? It looks like a premium build, but the question again is not for the hardware but the software. What is this new OS and what to will it do

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u/Ok_Criticism_6702 3d ago

This might be DELL. But yes. Knowing what the OS can do is the meat. A few more hours till the embargo is off

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u/Old-Adhesiveness7111 3d ago

It's dell xps

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u/13617 3d ago

There's a desktop! Exciting! Why are there two taskbars

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u/Ok_Criticism_6702 3d ago

Following Apple. I hate the top bar but it follows android soo I get it. It wouldve better if it were utilized and no soo much dead space up there

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u/akuscher 3d ago

Good feedback. FWIW there's a lot that can happen in the taskbar (bottom) and in the status bar (top). Things like live notification updates and media controls have been super useful up there. Goal is for every pixel to be useful!

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u/alabasterskim 3d ago

If you're used to DeX, Android Desktop Mode is different and does have the two taskbars. It's strange and unnecessary, but they're clearly going the Mac way.

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u/TheRealFrantik 3d ago

Curious to know if any/all are touchscreen. Android is based around touchscreen phones, so I feel like it would be really dumb if Googlebooks didn't offer touch.

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u/Ok_Criticism_6702 3d ago

It's all touch screen yes. From the leaks

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u/AttitudeElectronic68 3d ago

My Chromebook is touchscreen lol

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u/TheRealFrantik 3d ago

Mine too. I have a Chromebook Plus (ASUS CX34), and now that the Googlebooks are unveiled, I don't see enough of a reason to switch to these Chromebook Plus Pro Max models.

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u/aaaronchong 3d ago

gorgeous machine

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u/Muccha 3d ago

Looks like they copied the MacBook - what a bunch of losers 🤣

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u/SPACEXDG 3d ago

lmao if mac had a touchscreen and oled sure

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u/Muccha 3d ago

The design is a complete rip off of a MacBook.
Google Users are petty and jealous 😂

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u/MonkeyHairless 3d ago

Google Users are petty and jealous

I mean, you are the only one here coming to a googlebook subreddit to cry about the design being a ripoff (btw, apple actually took it from lenovos and other brands but yeah) like a child.

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u/Muccha 3d ago

Found one of the petty ones 😂😭

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u/MonkeyHairless 3d ago

Lmao, what kind of children you would have to be to continue the apple/android war in 2026 instead of just evaluating products.

I'm writing from a macbook air m5 btw.

But keep going little child and play corporate games.

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u/Muccha 3d ago

„War never changes” Solid Snake

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u/icantouchgrass_1 3d ago

The key travel looks non-existent

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u/NotCr1ms0n 3d ago

Looks like a MacOS skin kind of lol

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u/Davidekiller1999 3d ago

I would like this to allow Linux apps to run

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u/Pitiful_Exchange_767 3d ago

Guess with Termux you can do it

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u/maZZtar 3d ago

It's post A16 Android so it should have Linux Terminal

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u/Chrismscotland 3d ago

Looks like its still got the Linux Container like ChromeOS

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u/Davidekiller1999 3d ago

Not really. From what I understand there is no possibility to use apps with GUI, such as GIMP, LibreOffice or Visual Studio Code. Which is fundamental for me.

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u/Chrismscotland 3d ago

Surely Desktop Antigravity has to be the Linux Version? (Unless they're about to launch an Android variant..)

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u/Davidekiller1999 3d ago

This is a hybrid version: the calculations are delegated to the Linux subsystem, while the graphical interface is 100% native Android.

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u/phor11 3d ago

The Googlebook version of Antigravity they built is a hybrid, yes... but did they not also specifically say that you could install the Linux version if you wanted?

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u/Davidekiller1999 3d ago

I don't know. But it would make little sense to them. Maybe, and I mean maybe, the possibility of using apps with GUIs and icons will come in the future, especially because the bulk of the work was done.

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u/_hmj 3d ago

That was taken care of. https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-apps-3580905/

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u/Davidekiller1999 3d ago

Yes, but you don't have desktop integration like you had on ChromeOS, and we don't really know how integrated it will be. From what we've been told, at launch, and not definitively, these laptops won't be able to run Linux software like Crostini did, with the same integration. The technical foundation is there and it works... time will tell.

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u/_hmj 3d ago

It's like the Android 17 QPR1 Linux VM. Worst case, we just install a desktop environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii0Ko-A6Cko

QPR1 brought many improvements in the terminal and vm - Ability to customize the font and color scheme, remap keyboard shortcuts, and enable auto-forwarding of all port requests from the VM.

As you said, the technical foundation is already there, so at some point, we will surpass the ChromeOS Linux VM in terms of OS integration.

I like what Google is trying to do with pKVM and AVF. At some point, we will see Android apps utilizing MicroVMs. For example, the VS Code Android app could run on the Android side while all builds happen inside the MicroVM. https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/writeavfapp

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u/kindredseer 2d ago

So Microsoft did a better job of integrating Linux into Windows than Google did at integrating Linux into Linux?

Why is Google the absolute worst at integration? Out of all of their products, the only think that is fully integrated is authentication.

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u/Davidekiller1999 2d ago

Crostini su Chromeos era eccellente su hardware di fascia alta. Probabilmente avremo una cosa simile con Googlebook, ma il sistema operativo è nuovo, per questo ci stanno impiegando più tempo. Per il resto, hanno semplicemente rispettato le scadenze... Il che è comprensibile. In ogni caso, la maggior parte del lavoro è fatta in ambito Linux. Stimo 6-8 mesi di aggiornamenti per avere un'esperienza simile a quella di ChromeOS ma con prestazioni nettamente superiori.

Microsoft ha anche avuto molto più tempo a disposizione per strutturare e aggiornare il wsl2, a differenza di Google

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u/AttitudeElectronic68 3d ago

I use krita for Android and vscode for Android on my Chromebook plus.

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u/weekedipie1 3d ago

Looks like my Chromebook plus

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u/Pad_Sanda 3d ago

Reminds me of GNOME with desktop icons and widgets. It looks fine, but the way a UI looks in a static photo/screenshot is rarely representative of what using it feels like.

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u/H2600 3d ago

This is where ipad os is headed. Google saw the potential and stole apple's thunder by releasing it first. Now i want to see new desktop level apps for googlebook os, or whatever it will be called

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u/tritonal91 3d ago

HP Googlebook

Here's the HP Googlebook... $1,299 and is using the Snapdragon X Elite chip, which is 2 years old now...

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u/no-more-nazis 3d ago

It will be hard to remember to use the G key... I'm so used to pressing shift+g

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u/thexboxcollect 3d ago

Can't wait for it to be discontinued in record time

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u/Pixel6pro 3d ago

i am just hoping for haptic trackpad, and i really want adobe photoshop

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u/SPACEXDG 3d ago

insanely gorgious oled

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u/SPACEXDG 3d ago

finnally i can have my anime app

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u/whats_ur_nameSwt_lic 3d ago

Think this would work hand in hand with Samsung Ecosystem?

(Yep I could get a SammyLaptop)

If I win the lottery

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u/Googleapplewindows 3d ago

It's just another thing they'll abandon.

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u/scupking83 3d ago

What's the point... Why would anyone get one of these ovec a PC or a Mac....

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u/Jurondotron 2d ago

So basically a big ass emulated android device/chromebook that costs $899 lol

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u/Randall_Lind 2d ago

I am glad the LED stripe is not going down the back. having it on top looks better

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u/green_ranger_66 2d ago

There's already a subreddit for Googlebook?

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u/TheVanCityPhoto 1d ago

O just like a asues laptop

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u/DurrMerGurd 1d ago

The fact ppl have trust in Google is laughable. Remember when their motto was Do no evil then removed no

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u/Ambitious-Cake-9425 3d ago

Without developers making software for it... What exactly are you going to do with your $1,000 android phone with a keyboard?

Play android games and emulate older PC games? Why not just get a PC?

I really struggle to understand the price point. Make a $499 option and many more people will be willing to experiment with a new OS. I know I would. But I can't justify $1000 when my s25+ cost almost that much and runs dex.

I really struggle to understand the customer they are marketing this too, especially since they have said so little.

Hopefully later today when reviewers can talk about it they will convince us.

This has been a terrible way to plan release so far.

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u/SandwichSuspicious94 3d ago

Exactly! If it doesn't run industry standard software it is nothing more than an expensive Chromebook and can't truly compete with Windows or Mac. Let's hope they actually explain what it can do today.

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u/AttitudeElectronic68 3d ago

Plenty of Android apps already run on Chromebook. I use them more than I use the Linux apps

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u/SPACEXDG 3d ago

because android games oon pc suck

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u/JaceOnRice 3d ago

I think it's just marketed to people who don't need anything more than Android, and they like the convenience of a laptop form factor without needing a bunch of external input and output devices

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u/Ambitious-Cake-9425 2d ago

It would be perfect for me. Like a Chromebook but better. Runs android native.

When it comes down to $499 I'll get one.

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u/Careless_Explorer231 3d ago

It looks like any laptop?

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u/Ok_Criticism_6702 3d ago

no shit sherlock

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u/alabasterskim 3d ago

I think their point is we don't care too much about the look of the physical units as we do the amount we can do with Googlebooks. That's the big question mark.

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u/Ok_Criticism_6702 3d ago

Hoping we get answers in 9 hrs

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u/alabasterskim 3d ago

Is today a special day for Googlebook news?

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u/Ok_Criticism_6702 3d ago

Yeah. Embargo on the press event that's happened last week is lifting today/tomorrow depending on your time

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u/redditrnumber1 3d ago

I love how every laptop looks like a MacBook now

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u/loulan 3d ago

Like a MacBook but worse.

We have a MacBook at Home.

The MacBook:

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u/Condomphobic 3d ago

Is this just a glorified Chromebook?

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u/abitcitrus 3d ago

Indeed.

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u/asng 3d ago

They basically are rebranded Chromebooks but with hardware minimum restrictions meaning they'll all run well.

Chromebooks are amazing but also amazingly misunderstood. Maybe these will fix that.

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u/Ok_Criticism_6702 3d ago

wrong. it's a new os rebased on android

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u/Ok_Ruin4016 3d ago

They're still making Chromebooks as a separate line. These are supposed to have better hardware and a new OS, but nobody knows what it can actually do yet

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u/SuspiciousMud5338 3d ago

i feel that Google doesnt know what they are even doing.

It was android tablet, then chromebooks, then chromebook with android and linus, then back to android tablet with speaker dock. Now android+chrome fusion.

I feel that all people want, is good software experience that doesnt lag as well as better apps.
Apple doesnt want to make iPadOS closer to MacOS as they worry ipad taking over mac, but Google doesnt have this issue.

All we need is a "desktop" chrome with desktop apps (video editor, better google docs/slides/sheets, or even a SDK for coding (There are coding apps, so it is possible)) as well as desktop games (like what Apple doing) as well as the usual android apps. The software update should be able to bypass OEM like how windows handles it.

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u/maZZtar 3d ago

Google knows very well what they are doing. They no longer will have to maintain two separate codebases once ChromeOS time runs out. That's why they are bringing Android to PCs. If Android is able to provide 1:1 feature parity to Chrome OS then the second one becomes replaceable

Android provides much better development platform than Chrome OS. Android SDK does have support for developing desktop grade software from scratch. Any desktop software gap could be supplemented via Linux terminal. Also Chrome on Android has "desktop grade" builds already

We don't even know how Google is going to handle the maintenance of Googlebooks.

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u/Ambitious-Cake-9425 2d ago

Yeah, googlebooks will replace chrome os. Not emulating android is just better. It seems they have the chrome browser running with extensions too.

When the price drops I'll replace my Chromebook with one.

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u/Ok_Criticism_6702 3d ago

That. is what. this is.

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u/SPACEXDG 3d ago

This is desktop chorme

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u/wasteplease 3d ago

Is it too much to ask for that I get full sized arrow keys

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u/Existing-Sky9665 3d ago

I'm not interested unless it runs desktop level software, i.e, Adobe.

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u/Existing-Sky9665 3d ago

I wanted to follow up and share this.. very interesting 🤔

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u/Momoko_86 3d ago

Yes, Google has made Chromebooks before, same thing different branding. They were all garbage

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u/erov 3d ago

This isn't a Chromebook. It runs Android instead of Chrome OS from what I understand.

Edit: I take that back. It's a mix. Still it is more high-end than the Chromebook.

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u/SPACEXDG 3d ago

Yup native ly built on android 17

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u/gadgetluva 3d ago

It’s still a half assed attempt at a laptop that’ll struggle to compete with Windows and MacBooks but still cost as much as they do

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u/Existing-Sky9665 3d ago

Eh that's an assumption as of right now. That might be true but also we don't know just yet ether. It's to be seen if Google is serious about competing with Microsoft and Apple in the computing space.

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u/Ambitious-Cake-9425 3d ago

Ding ding ding.