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A week with Googlebooks: four notes from our testing so far - The Verge
Publisher description: We’ve been testing Googlebook laptops from Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, and HP all week — all five launch offerings — and we already have many thoughts about Google’s new operating system.
NewsAPI | Oct 9, 2026 | Antonio G. Di Benedetto, David Pierce, Stevie Bonifield, Dominic Preston
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Di Benedetto, currently testing the HP Googlebook 14, Lenovo Googlebook 15, and Acer Googlebook 14Google has a big, big developer problemStreaming apps like Crunchyroll are basically tablet apps. Some apps respond naturally to the keyboard and mouse; others don’t. So, none of those apps have app drawer icons like my Android apps, and they don’t pop up in my taskbar when they’re running.
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