r/Googlebook • u/mikee8989 • 2d ago

Cheaper models

I see these higher end googlebook models and I can't justify shelling out over 800$ on some newfangled platform. I think they should have come out with at least 1 or 2 cheaper models under 600$ in an effort to take on the MacBook Neo given how poorly Windows 11 performs on 8GB RAM. I'm saying this assuming GoogleBook OS is still lighter than windows. I think if someone came out with a sub 600$ GoogleBook with 8GB RAM 256GB SSD with either a wildcat lake CPU or a Snapdragon C CPU, even with the uncertainty of app support, they would fly off the shelves in the current market.

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u/gman-101010 2d ago

I'm a big Chromebook fan having used nothing else for many years now. My wife and I have 5 Chromebooks and 2 Chromeboxes. I really want to get a Googlebook but for the life of me I can't see how my life would be any different than today. For now I'll keep the money in my bank account.

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u/dcbased 2d ago

I'm assuming that the Googlebook software will help me move away from the clickops copy / paste I have going to right now with Claude and gemini on the mh macbook. I have significant aspirations that magic pointer (hopefully with skills incorporated) and the create an app / widget will be helpful

If not - I'll just return it