The First ‘Googlebook’ Laptops With Gemini Intelligence Are Coming Later this Year

Google has teamed up with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to launch new “Googlebook” laptops later this fall. Googlebooks are a new category of premium laptops that will support Android apps, just like existing Chromebooks, but they will deeply integrate Google’s Gemini chatbot.

We’ve known for quite some time that Google was planning to replace ChromeOS with a new Android-powered platform called Aluminium OS internally. However, today’s announcement didn’t explicitly mention that Googlebooks will run a new flavor of Android, but it did highlight a seamless integration with Android phones.

“We’re bringing together the world’s most popular browser, powerful apps on Google Play and a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence. The result is Googlebook: a new category of laptops built with Gemini’s helpfulness at its core, designed to work seamlessly with the devices in your life and powered by premium hardware,” explained Alex Kuscher, Senior Director, Laptops & Tablets at Google.

Google detailed today how Googlebooks will be able to run access apps and files from a connected Android phone. « With Quick Access, you can easily view, search or insert your phone’s files on your laptop — no transfers needed, » Kuscher said.

The exec also explained that Googlebooks are “designed for the ground up for Gemini Intelligence,” which is the new app automation system that will be launching first on the Samsung Galaxy S26 series and Google Pixel 10 series this summer. The ability to « vibe code » custom widgets will also be available on Googlebooks, but Google also touted how it will integrate its Gemini AI right into the Googlebook mouse cursor. The company is calling this new feature the « Magic Pointer. »

“For being the most often used tool on your laptop, the cursor has seen little change in the last few decades, since the right click. We are changing that with Magic Pointer on Googlebook, a transformative feature we built with the Google Deepmind team, that brings Gemini’s helpfulness right to your fingertips, quite literally,” explained Kuscher.

When it’s pointed at a date in an email, the Magic Pointer will be able to suggest to Googlebook users to set up a meeting. When selecting two images. When that makes sense, Gemini Intelligence will also suggest combining two selected images into one. As an example, this can be useful for creating a band poster by mixing the images of a live band with a logo.

On the hardware front, Googlebooks will use premium materials and feature an animated « glowbar » featuring the four colors of the Google logo. Kuscher described this new hardware characteristic as « a statement that is both functional and beautiful. »

Google plans to share more details about the first Googlebooks later this year, but today’s announcement still leaves a lot of unanswered questions about the future of Chromebooks. The first-ever Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung launched 15 years ago, and Google introduced a more premium “Chromebook Plus” category three years ago.