Google hasn’t shown any reason for ‘Googlebook’ laptops to exist, so why should we be excited?

We’ve been hearing about Google’s behind-the-scenes work to move its laptop efforts over to Android, but now that we’ve seen “Googlebook,” I’m not really sure I’m sold yet. Honestly, I don’t think Google has shown any reason for these laptops to exist at all.

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