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The long dream of the Googlebook - The Verge
Publisher description: By merging ChromeOS and Android, Google has found a new kind of laptop that it thinks can compete with Mac and Windows.
NewsAPI | Sep 21, 2026 | David Pierce
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It’s called the XPS Googlebook, and it’s one of five new devices running Googlebook OS, Google’s latest big idea about computers. At first blush, Googlebooks feel like classic Google in a bad way: yet another operating system, yet another brand, yet another thing destined for the Google graveyard. Slowly but surely, Google has built Android into a familiar interface and a large app ecosystem across all those devices. Googlebooks run Googlebook OS, which is mostly Android, but with some ChromeOS trappings thrown in.
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