Google competes against Apple and Microsoft with new high-end laptops

Google hopes to compete with Apple’s MacBook and Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs by introducing a new line of laptops designed for Gemini AI and running a hybrid of Android and ChromeOS.

These Googlebooks – which, ironically, could be difficult for Google because they have a similar name to its existing Google Books and Google Play Books products – will be manufactured by companies like Dell, Lenovo, HP, ASUS and Acer and will be released later this year. Google hasn’t confirmed whether it will produce its own model, but all will run the same new operating system and feature a glowing rainbow bar on the lid.

The laptops were announced during this week’s Android Show ahead of next week’s Google I/O and were positioned as Google’s most “advanced” and…