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I tried all 5 Googlebooks, and they feel like a whole new kind of laptop

ZDNet6 min read

New Googlebooks from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are here – and they may be just what Android users have been waiting for.

Google has a new lineup of Googlebook laptops from five major brands. They run GooglebookOS, which allows users to run Android apps natively. Googlebooks have up to 64GB of RAM, OLED displays, and haptic touchpads. When Google first announced the Googlebook back in May, details were sparse, except that it would run a new operating system that’s an offshoot of Android OS, bringing new smartphone integrations to the laptop user experience. Chromebooks already had some integrations and could run most Android apps, but the experience was hit or miss, as ChromeOS is not Android. That will change with the Googlebook, which is built on the Android stack and paired with desktop foundations from ChromeOS, combining them into an entirely…

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