Google has announced Googlebook, a new category of laptop designed around its Gemini AI platform. The company describes it as the most significant rethinking of its laptop strategy since the Chromebook.
Googlebooks combine the Android app ecosystem with the ChromeOS browser foundation. The devices are built for AI assistance, Android phone integration, and premium hardware. First models arrive this fall from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
The central feature is Magic Pointer, a cursor-based AI tool developed with Google DeepMind. Users can hover over on-screen items to get contextual suggestions-like creating a calendar event from a date in an email or merging two images to visualize an object in a room.
The laptops also support 'Create your Widget,' allowing users to prompt Gemini to build custom desktop widgets from apps like Gmail and Calendar. Android phone integration includes direct access to phone apps and file sharing without manual transfers.
Google is positioning Googlebook as a premium category, not a Chromebook refresh. The devices feature a distinctive glowbar design.
The launch puts Google directly into the AI PC race against Microsoft's Copilot Plus PCs and Apple's macOS with Apple Intelligence. Google's bet is that Gemini can become the central interface layer on laptops, not just a chatbot inside apps.