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So, it is almost Google Book season. In
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just a few weeks, we'll be on our way to
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New York to finally see the initial
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fleet of devices Google is launching
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with their OEM partners, and the
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anticipation has been building for
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months ever since Google officially
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unveiled Google Book to the world at the
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Android show back in May of this year,
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just before Google IO. Now, if you
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follow along over at chromeunbox.com,
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you know that Google Book has been the
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primary focus for us on the website of
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late. But here on YouTube, we haven't
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really talked that much about it since
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that initial look back in May. So, with
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the official press event just around the
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corner, I wanted to take a step back and
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get everyone here on YouTube up to speed
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with what is easily the biggest shift in
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Google's laptop strategy since the
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launch of Chrome OS 15 years ago. So,
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let's [music] get into it.
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For over a decade, we have loved and
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advocated for Chromebooks. The speed,
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simplicity, the security, they're just
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unmatched. But being brutally honest,
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over the last couple years, the consumer
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Chromebook ecosystem has kind of hit a
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wall. Big software updates have slowed
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down almost completely. Hardware
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releases became fewer and far between
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and what once felt like the
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forwardthinking computing platform
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started to feel like it had reached the
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peak of what was possible from the
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current OS and hardware. But then we
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were all introduced to Google Book. And
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from a consumer computing standpoint,
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this new era of Google Laptops looks to
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address the limitations that have always
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kept buyers at a distance from
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Chromebooks and kept creatives from ever
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considering Google's laptops at all. At
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its core, Google Book is a brand new
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category of flagship laptops that merges
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the best stuff we love about Chrome OS
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built on a native Android stack. So
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instead of running Chrome OS and trying
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to like bolt-on Android apps with a
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virtual container, they've instead built
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Google Book from the ground up on a
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desktop class Android foundation that
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runs a full fat desktop Chrome browser
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on top of it. It's the best of both
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worlds really, giving users full desktop
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web productivity that you know and love
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from Chromebooks, paired up with native
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Android benefits like properly running
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desktop apps or offline media downloads
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for streaming services and desktop icons
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and widgets and deep Gemini integration
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and even more. And the hardware coming
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for this new platform is pretty wild.
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We've been digging through open source
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code repositories and benchmark
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databases for the past few months and we
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have along with some others as well
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uncovered a massive fleet of launch
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devices that we expect to show up at
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this press event that's coming up in
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midepptember. Unlike the original
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Chromebook launch in 2011 which started
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with what amounted to a couple simple
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plastic netbooks, Google book is hitting
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the ground running with this
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unprecedented day one hardware lineup.
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We're expecting anywhere from six to
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eight like flagship devices. I mean
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flagship devices from big OEMs like
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Lenovo, HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus. And
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again, we're talking high-end silicon
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across the board. So, Qualcomm
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Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips,
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flagship MediaTek demensity processors,
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and nextg Intel Panther Lake silicon.
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We're seeing leaks of premium aluminum
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and ceramic builds, gorgeous high-res
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OLED displays, haptic trackpads, the
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return of the iconic glow bar that
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hearkens all the way back to the
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original Chromebook Pixel, and even
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more. It's just an impressive lineup to
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launch a new laptop platform. And while
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we're talking about that hardware, one
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of the biggest pieces of news, at least
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in my mind, around Google Book has been
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the clear and unmistakable inclusion of
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a new 13-in detachable Google Book from
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Lenovo, simply called the Google Book
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Duet M. It brings all the lineage of
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Lenovo's great Chromebook tablets
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throughout the years and adds on
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features like a wirelessly recharging
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pen, an angled kickstand, an OLED
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screen, and the MediaTek demenity chip
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to power the entire experience. There
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have also been early looks at new OS
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features like Continue on which is
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basically Google's answer to Apple
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Handoff for phone to laptop tasks, a
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brand new native desktop camera app
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that's emerged, the AI powered magic
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pointer, and even early movement on the
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promised phone tolaptop app streaming
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already in place before launch. And the
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best part, [clears throat]
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we don't have to wait much longer to see
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all of this in person. As I said
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earlier, Google has invited us to an
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in-person Google Book Media preview
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event in New York City on Tuesday,
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September 15th. And we are so pumped to
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get up there to see all that Google Book
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has to offer and get our hands on these
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amazing looking laptops and tablets. But
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