Does Windows have anything to fear? A 16-minute video leaks, showing Google's new computer system

During the Android Show event, Google finally confirmed what it has been working on for many months. The new category of laptops is called Googlebooks, and at its core beats an operating system that combines the best of Android and ChromeOS. The devices will hit the market this autumn and will be manufactured by all the major players — Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

Gemini in every corner

The main attraction is Gemini Intelligence. The Magic Pointer feature allows you to wave the cursor and point at anything on the screen — Gemini will immediately offer contextual actions, typically creating a meeting from a date in an email or combining two images into one visualization. Create My Widget, in turn, custom-builds components that pull data from Gmail, Calendar, and the web, and places them on the desktop.

The second pillar is phone connectivity. Cast my apps allows you to run any mobile application on your laptop, while Quick Access searches files on your phone and in the cloud. A regular Android user will therefore not lose anything they had in their pocket.

Leak shows what it looks like in practice

On the same day, Mystic Leaks revealed a sixteen-minute look at the system running on a virtual PC. The build is based on Android 17 and is internally called AluminiumOS. Compared to ChromeOS, small features that everyone else has had for years have finally been added — desktop folders, freely arranged app icons, right-click context menu, and support for virtual desktops. A terminal and the Link to iOS app are also present.

For now, however, it feels quite empty; many things crash or don’t work. Google itself admits that a lot will still change by autumn. The question remains what will happen to Chromebooks — their support is set to run until the end of the promised period, and many of them will transition to the new system.

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Source: 9to5Google, Mystic Leaks