Googlebooks are a new category of Android-powered laptops, and I’ve been using them for two weeks. While I primarily tested the Acer Googlebook 14, I also took the Dell XPS Googlebook for a spin. During the first week, I used Googlebooks as my only computers. I took them on the go, hooked them up to external monitor setup, and used them for absolutely everything.
The experience was rough, to put it bluntly. Tasks that would’ve taken me half the time on a macOS or Windows laptop took twice as long on a Googlebook, and required lengthy troubleshooting sessions. Basic features were unreliable, or didn’t work at all. Then came week two.