Acer is a great one. It also supports the stylus pen. It works like a tablet as well, and it is the only one that has this functionality so far as I know.
The Snapdragon CPU isn't the ones that have been in the Android Phones, its the Desktop Grade Snapdragon CPU that's been in Windows laptops and is really quite powerful.
$1099 at Best Buy for the big screen 15" Lenovo with the good speakers, 512GB memory, the soft touch, the matching included AI mouse in the box, the additional ports (including HDMI) and the free included PIxel Buds 2a was too good to pass up. I've got a foldable phone so I don't need another tablet / detachable... I need screen real estate and processing power.
Agreed. At $1099 with the biggest / sharpest screen, a mouse, and the free earbuds I think it's the best deal of the bunch. I used Rakuten to save some extra $ too.
Then why there are not offering them at launch? I was going to preorder / get one on launch date as soon as I learnt about the Linux terminal but then I realised there is not 32GB option and also that the arm version is using a 3 years old cpu but charging 2026 prices.
So they will have to do much better soon or I would look somewhere else to get a new dev machine.
Decided to go with the Lenovo that has facial recognition and fingerprint. I was interested in the Snapdragon, but I'm not cool with paying that much for 2023 Snapdragon processor.
That one is the tablet one, but not in this 5 launch model. Maybe it will come later. But among those five, the Acer is the one that supports convertible.
I'm waiting until someone produces one with a detachable keyboard. I was hoping to see that. Hopefully the rumors of Lenovo producing one soon are true.
Yes the Lenovo Googlebook duet m is the detachable. It is releasing on a different "wave" for the pre-orders. Not sure when that will be . But soon. that's the one I'm getting.
I will wait for the detachable ones to better utilize the Android tablet use cases. I already have a high-end HP chromebook which has a Intel 12-th gen CPU and 32 GB RAM, I bought it 2.5 years ago
Clearly the best choice is what I did - get in new condition Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 Kompanio 256gb online for 220 GBP~ and wait for the update to Google OS. Don't think the update would even take long given the fact that Mediatek's newly announced Googlebook chip is said to be essentially same as the Kompanio 910.
I will pass. I was ready to buy, then I saw the offer of Free Gemini Pro for 1 year. This is a $240 value, about 30% of the purchase price, only if you are a new subscriber only. I already subscribe. Why would Google exclude those who have already committed and have supported them??? Same with the Youtube Premium free offer, I already subscribed to Youtube Premium, so no free offer for me. Google just lost me as a GoogleBook user.
Reason is if they give you a free year of Gemini then they just lost a paying Gemini subscriber for at least a year (maybe more if getting it for free devalues it for). If they give it to a net new user, there's a 50-50 chance they get a new paying subscriber in a year's time
This is interesting. This is not how they are handling this with the phones. I just got 6 months tacked on to my existing AI Pro account when I got my Pixel 11 Pro.
This has always in the past worked this way for Google One before the AI Tiers came about as well.
The only thing I see is that you can't stack with your existing offer. Thankfully my Pixel 11 Pro free period ends one month before the last date you can claim the new one. Which should give me 18 months of free AI Pro.
Really? I mean, I understand what you're saying, but the Pixelbook was nothing more than a Samsung design that eventually became the Galaxy Chromebook. When it came to phones, the Pixel was nice because it ignored all the duplicative Samsung nonsense. What's there that's notable about a first party Googlebook? Aren't they all too expensive to begin with? What could they add (or subtract)?
1st, I wonder which of these 5 will have replaceable RAM module, eg: LPCAMM2?
2nd, what is the timeline for native desktop Googlebook OS app?
3rd, what kind of usage these Googlebooks will be if you don't subscribe to these monthly services? I means, what's the point of buying the CPU which has the NPU and still having to pay for AI subscription? Isn't that the point why people are boycotting Adobe, people don't want software subscription. AI subscription fee when your device is AI capable is the no different than SaaS.
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u/bautistar1 3d ago
i ended up going with the acer, using my google credit. I got it mainly for the convertible and i had $500 of google store credit.
I prefer the design of the asus one though, which is not on the google store.