GoKawiilAfter a brief tease back in May , Google is detailing its lineup of Googlebooks, its new line of laptops designed to serve as premium systems that work best with Android phones and deliver unique abilities through Gemini.
At an event ahead of the launch, Sameer Samat, Google's president of the Android ecosystem, said that the device's new OS would pull from the best aspects of ChromeOS and Android to design a modern
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The systems are available for pre-order today and will land in stores on October 4 in the U.S. and October 5 in Canada, the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, and Australia.
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The first five Googlebooks come from five partners: Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus, and Acer, and offer silicon from either Intel or Qualcomm. MediaTek is also listed as a partner, but its chips aren't in the first wave of devices.
These devices are clearly designed to go after the MacBook Air and premium Windows laptops, using materials like aluminum, magnesium, and carbon fiber rather than plastic. The screens are all high-resolution, with several 2880 x 1800 OLED screens. Most of the lineup has haptic touchpads.
Google has set a floor of 16GB for RAM, with several of the options offering up to 32GB. 256GB is the minimum for storage, though many go up to 512GB, and Dell and HP go up to 1TB.
Swipe to scroll horizontally Row 0 - Cell 0 HP Googlebook 14 Dell XPS Googlebook Lenovo Googlebook 15 Acer Googlebook 14 Asus Googlebook 14 CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Intel Core Ultra 5 and 7 (Panther Lake) Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 325 or Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 355
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