Alphabet’s Google opened Monday pre-orders for Googlebook, a premium Android-user laptop line centered on Gemini AI tools, with initial Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo models starting at $899.
Alphabet’s Google on Monday opened pre-orders for Googlebook, a new premium laptop category for Android users built around the company’s Gemini AI tools, Reuters reported. Starting at $899, initial models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo will run on Intel or Qualcomm processors with up to 14 hours of battery life, the company said.
The launch lands as Apple moves deeper into lower-priced laptops with its $699 MacBook Neo, adding competition in a market where Chromebook makers have long targeted students and budget buyers on affordability and simplicity. Googlebook extends that formula into premium machines with more powerful hardware, AI features, and tighter Android integration — Google’s latest flagship ChromeOS showcase after the Pixelbook in 2017 and Pixelbook Go in 2019.
The lineup includes Gemini tools that can help users draft and organize text, ask questions about content on their screens, and resume tasks from an Android phone. Googlebook is built on the Android technology stack paired with desktop foundations from ChromeOS, aiming to make switching between phones and computers more seamless.
The pre-order open is a hardware and distribution push: Gemini features packaged into partner premium notebooks sold under the Googlebook label, not a new frontier model release. Pricing starts above Apple’s $699 MacBook Neo while still well below many traditional premium Windows and Mac configurations, putting Google’s AI laptop bet in the mid-premium band Chromebooks have not historically owned.
This brief covers Google’s Monday pre-order announcement as reported. It does not treat battery-life or Gemini feature claims as independently verified beyond the company’s statements in the Reuters account.