A week with Googlebooks: software is the weak point of Google's new laptops

The Verge spent a week testing the new Googlebook laptops and found that while the hardware ranges from great to excellent, Googlebook OS feels like a step back from ChromeOS: Android apps run as tablet versions, keyboard and window management are awkward, and Linux apps aren't a viable fix yet.

• Hardware of the five Googlebooks rated great to excellent; complaints target Googlebook OS
• Android apps launch as full-screen tablet versions with non-obvious windowing
• In Slack on Googlebook you can't highlight text and must press Ctrl+Enter to send
• Linux apps via the Debian VM aren't yet a workable alternative