Google has spent more than a decade building laptops around the web. Googlebook represents a much bigger bet: building the laptop around AI and Android.

Googlebook is a new family of premium laptops designed for Gemini Intelligence, combining an Android-based technology stack with desktop foundations developed through ChromeOS. The first models come from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, with prices starting at $899. Devices hit shelves Oct. 4 in the US and Oct. 5 in Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, and Australia.

That puts Googlebook into direct competition with premium Windows laptops, MacBooks, and higher-end Chromebooks. But the…

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