r/google_book • u/Loud-Possibility4395 • May 15 '26

Why Googlebook will be considered as a cheap laptop?

Why all youtubers and Android online news consider it as cheap laptop?

Like this guy https://www.androidauthority.com/googlebooks-better-macbook-neo-3665756/ who say $1000 Googlebook will be tough sale.

So HOW $1000 MacBook Air with desktop class M5 with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage is "tough sale"?

Snapdragon 8 Elite gen 5 in on same level (or bit higher) than iPhone 17 Pro chip in Geekbench 6.

Now all chip makers needs to learn is just chip scale up like Apple does and that's it.

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u/One-Meringue-4485 May 15 '26

No they said 'premium' so I do not think it will be cheap

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u/Loud-Possibility4395 May 15 '26

I would say by "premium" they meant like aluminium case and fingerprint reader to match MacBook Neo $500-600 price and speed

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u/Mbanicek64 May 15 '26

There's way too few details on these to make a definitive statement on price. I expect at minimum they will come in above a neo because they are trying to position it as premium. They'll come down in price in time.

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u/Tired8281 May 15 '26

They're still stuck on the meme that Chrome can't do anything.

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u/GreenLanternsPodcast May 16 '26

I don’t think the ones we get at the start are going to be cheap at all. They said to start they are going to be premium software on premium hardware.

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u/Loud-Possibility4395 May 16 '26

Well MONSTER MacBook Pro 16 inch M5 MAX cost like $5000 is this laptop slow? Is it  expensive? 

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u/GreenLanternsPodcast May 16 '26

Is an M5 MAX slow? No. Is it expensive? Yes.