These are the first five Googlebook laptops

Google’s promising up to 10 years of updates for the new Googlebooks from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.


Google and partners are finally announcing the first laptops under the new Googlebook banner. There are five models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to kick things off. They’re available for preorder starting today and arrive in stores on October 4th.
Starting prices range from $899 to $1,299, putting the Googlebooks in the same territory as the MacBook Air and a plethora of Windows laptops. Each Googlebook also comes with 12 months of Google AI Pro with 5TB of cloud storage, along with three-month trials of YouTube Premium, Adobe Photoshop, and CapCut. Google’s also promising up to 10 years of updates.
Here’s a look at the hardware each Googlebook has to offer for those prices, and how they compare to each other.
Acer Googlebook 14




The Acer Googlebook 14 is the only convertible 2-in-1 in the first round of Googlebooks, featuring a design a bit like Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 714. Acer says it offers up to 16 hours of battery life. It also currently has the lowest starting price at $899, although that might not last — Acer’s Kelly Odle said in a comment to The Verge that $899 is the laptop’s “initial launch price available for a limited time,” adding that Acer plans to “reevaluate pricing over time based on component supplies and other market pressures.”
Ongoing shortages of RAM and other components have been driving up prices on other laptops, like Apple’s MacBook Neo , and unfortunately it sounds like a price hike isn’t out of the question for the Acer Googlebook 14, either.
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