I spent two hours with Googlebooks. Here are the 8 most important things to know

It’s not every day we see a brand-new kind of laptop launch, let alone one with a new OS from a brand that’s never thought of as a rival to MacBooks or premium Windows machines. But Google’s giving it a shot anyway with its Googlebook family. This is both a new line of products and a fresh operating system, or, as Google would prefer you think of it, an “intelligence system,” in one.