Topic

Consumer laptops

Portable personal computers sold to individuals, covering their designs, components, prices and the operating systems they ship with.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

The Googlebook pitch rests on three features that need an Android 17 phone

The Verge's hands-on describes a laptop meant to do for Android phones what the MacBook does for the iPhone. The handoff, app casting and phone file browsing at the centre of that pitch all require a handset already running Android 17.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption18
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence50

product1 publisher

All five launch Googlebooks clear 16GB of RAM without a spec requirement to hit

Engadget's hands-on with the Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo machines found at least 16GB of memory in every one, two chip architectures across the five, and a lid light array developers cannot program yet. Pre-orders are open.

Publishers:engadget.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption18
Hype gap+12
Incentives62
Confidence60