We’ve just benchmarked the first five Googlebooks. While my team and I will still need to use these laptops to assess their real-world performance, our lab results give us a clear picture of what they can do.
In case you didn’t know, Googlebooks are designed to give Android users seamless interoperability between their phones and laptops, just as iPhone owners have with MacBooks. These laptops aren’t just Chromebooks by another name. They all run the brand-new Googlebook OS, which combines aspects of Android and ChromeOS. And since these are Google laptops, Gemini is built right in and delivers unique features you won’t find elsewhere.
The Googlebooks we benchmarked are from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Each has 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. Acer, Asus, and Lenovo’s machines run on an Intel Core Ultra 5 325 Panther Lake, while Dell and HP’s notebooks use a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip. These are the starting configurations, though you can upgrade memory and storage at checkout for some of them.
Now that you know what Googlebooks are about and the specs of the laptops we benchmarked, it’s time to look at the numbers — both against each other and against some of their competitors. Let’s dive in!
On Geekbench 6, which tests general CPU performance, the Acer, Asus, and Lenovo Googlebooks generally scored similarly in the single- and multi-core tests. All of these laptops run on the same Panther Lake processor.
The XPS Googlebook 14 and HP Googlebook 14 had comparable single-core performance to those three laptops, but both notebooks scored much higher on multi-core performance.
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