Google unveils Googlebook: Android-powered AI laptops replace Chromebooks with Gemini at the OS level

This article was published on May 12, 2026 TL;DRGoogle killed ChromeOS and unveiled Googlebook, a premium Android laptop with Gemini embedded at the OS level, turning the cursor into an AI agent and unifying its 3.6 billion-device ecosystem onto a desktop for the first time. Google killed ChromeOS and unveiled Googlebook, a premium Android laptop with Gemini embedded at the OS level, turning the cursor into an AI agent and unifying its 3.6 billion-device ecosystem onto a desktop for the first time. Google killed the Chromebook. It took 15 years, but the company that invented the browser-as-operating-system has concluded that a browser is not enough. At the Android Show on Monday, Google unveiled Googlebook, a new category of premium laptops running Android with Gemini embedded at the operating system level. The devices will ship this autumn from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. ChromeOS is not being updated. It is being replaced. The rebrand is not cosmetic. Googlebook runs on what Google internally calls Aluminium OS, a version of Android 17 rebuilt as a genuine desktop platform with a custom window manager, native multitasking, and Gemini woven into every interaction. There are

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