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Googlebooks don’t have the same level of web app support as Chromebooks, as only “compliant” apps can be installed, and that’s not the only regression from ChromeOS, as Linux apps don’t work in the same way either.

Googlebook is pitched as the laptop for Android users but, at launch, the vast majority of Android users can’t use the platform’s best features.

Googlebook is now on sale and shipping to customers and, on day one at least, they can’t install the Slack web app.

Googlebook is an Android-based platform and, with that, comes the potential to do a bit more with it. Google has confirmed you can unlock the bootloader on a Googlebook, and now Magisk root support is already in the works.

Google says the vast majority of Android apps run fine on Googlebooks, but a few apps don’t play nicely with Intel laptops. By •

In a perfect world, the software we want to use would be available across all major platforms — but that’s just not the reality we live in. For multiple reasons, access is still a problem, and we’re always happy to see when a developer opens its doors to a new platform. Most of the time,…

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Seeing an app in the Google Play Store usually comes with a pretty safe assumption: your Android phone can probably run it. But Google’s new Antigravity listing reminds us that the Googlebook OS is about to make that assumption a lot less reliable. Antigravity has now landed on Google Play, but despite the familiar storefront,…

This has been a big week for Google, as pre-orders for Googlebooks opened up on Monday. Googlebooks are a new category of laptops that combine ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop operating system, for those unaware. So far, it seems these notebooks are selling like hotcakes, as the laptops are already out of stock…

Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo all got plenty of freedom to make their Googlebooks look different, so Google needed something that would instantly tie the whole family together. Its answer was the Glowbar, a strip of light on the lid that can show battery status, signal Gemini activity, and generally make a Googlebook recognizable…