Google officially unveiled the Googlebook last week, a few months after first revealing it. Several brands have since announced Googlebooks of their own, and Lenovo is the newest to show one.
The Lenovo Googlebook 15 is the company’s first laptop built around Googlebook OS and Gemini Intelligence. It goes on sale October 4 and starts at $1,099.99. That price puts it firmly in premium territory, where it will likely compete with high-end Windows laptops and even MacBooks. It also moves away from the budget image Google built with Chromebooks.
Lenovo Googlebook 15 Features
The Googlebook 15 has a 15.3-inch OLED touchscreen with a 2880 x 1800 resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, 500 nits of brightness, and 100% DCI-P3 color coverage. The screen is large, but Lenovo says the laptop weighs only 1.29kg, or under 3 pounds. That makes it the lightest 15-inch laptop in the company’s lineup.
Inside, you get an Intel Core Ultra 5 325 processor with up to 47 TOPS of NPU performance. It comes with 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5X memory and up to 512GB of SSD storage. The 70Wh battery is rated for more than 12.5 hours of use.
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Lenovo also packed in plenty of ports. You get two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a USB-A port, HDMI 2.0, and a headphone jack. Other features include Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, quad Dolby Atmos speakers, a 5MP webcam, a fingerprint reader, facial authentication, and a physical camera shutter.
Lenovo Googlebook 15 and Gemini
Magic Pointer lets you wiggle the cursor to call up Gemini and run contextual actions, like combining images or adding a date straight to your calendar. There’s also Rambler, which you will find on the Pixel 11 Pro too, and it can handle switching languages in the middle of a sentence.
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The Googlebook also connects directly to Android phones, so you can open phone apps and files from the laptop without moving everything across by hand. That Android integration is one of the things that first made the Googlebook interesting to me.
Windows has tried to do this in bits and pieces, but it has never given Android users the kind of tight link Apple offers iPhone and Mac owners.
Lenovo even built an AI Mouse for the platform, with dedicated Gemini access and controls for Magic Pointer.
Buyers also get 12 months of Google AI Pro, which includes 5TB of cloud storage. Google has said from the start that the Googlebook is meant to be a premium laptop category, not a Chromebook with a new badge, and Lenovo’s first attempt looks the part.
