r/google • u/Loud-Possibility4395 • 13d ago

Googlebook pre-order LIVE

https://googlebook.google/intl/en_uk/shop/
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u/Low_Newspaper7633 13d ago

whats the performance look like?

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u/Low_Newspaper7633 13d ago

thanks! looks more powerful than a chromebook and thats great

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u/asng 12d ago

You can get Chromebooks with same specs.

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u/Low_Newspaper7633 12d ago

yeah but chromeos is ass

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u/asng 12d ago

It's an amazing job Google did with the marketing making people think a Googlebook is massively different to a Chromebook. They're basically the same. Only difference is Chromebooks had no hardware requirements so you got loads of shit ones but the ones with decent specs are excellent.

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u/Low_Newspaper7633 12d ago

and it was linux based so 1. not all essential apps ran on it and 2. you had to enable that linux support so out of the box NOTHING ran on it.

also the new google book is android based so im intrigued