The long dream of the Googlebook

Google finally took the wraps off its new line of ‘Googlebook’ laptops, which includes devices from several manufacturers, including Asus, Dell, HP, and more. The Googlebooks are a fairly interesting new product line that attempts to blend some of the best parts of Google’s…

Dell’s XPS Googlebook is just one of the devices Google needs to be great. In late 2010, an up-and-coming Google executive named Sundar Pichai took the stage in front of a bunch of reporters and explained that Google had a big new idea about laptops. In the future, he said, the…