Leaked renders of Lenovo's rumored Googlebook 15 have appeared online, giving us our first glimpse of the new laptop.
Digital Citizen claims to have obtained press images of the laptop that reveal key details about its keyboard layout, app design, and connectivity. The Googlebook is a spiritual successor to the Chromebook. They will be more powerful than budget-focused ChromeOS PCs and offer deeper AI integration. That's the pitch at least, and we're cautiously optimistic about it.
Details remain scarce as we approach the launch of the first iterations of these designs, possibly at IFA, but with these Lenovo images, we're learning more. It's a 15-inch laptop with a silver-white chassis and a deliberately small keyboard. There's no numpad, but we do have arrow keys and a full function row with secondary capabilities. There's a Google key where the Windows key sits on Windows laptops. Caps Lock doubles as an app launcher.
The Googlebook features a streamlined port selection: a single USB-A, two USB-C (on opposite sides), an HDMI output, and a 3.5mm audio jack. There may also be a card reader slot or a SIM card slot. Although we don't know the speed of these ports, there's enough there to handle external displays, headphones, and USB-C charging. It will be easily expandable with a dock or adapter, too.
The display uses ultra-thin and modern-looking bezels, forcing the camera into its own little notch at the top. It goes above the bezel, rather than below it, as Apple does with its MacBooks. There's what appears to be a physical privacy shutter on the webcam, as is common on Lenovo laptops. Considering this laptop will lean heavily into its AI features, that physical barrier could help improve trust in a new platform.
The display also hints at what the operating system might look like and how it might work. It has a top status bar similar to Android, containing battery life, network status, date, time, notifications, and a Gemini button. There's a more typical taskbar along the bottom with rounded app shortcuts. That includes classic Google services, a casting app, and Adobe Premiere Pro, which signals that Googlebooks will launch with a robust software suite, and that the underlying hardware will be powerful enough to handle demanding tasks like video editing.
The press kit reportedly didn't include any specifications, so we don't know what this laptop will run on, nor what storage and memory configurations it will launch with. Depending on how lightweight the operating system ends up being, it's possible Googlebooks will be able to get away with less than traditional x86 platforms.
Last week, Android Headlines also tipped a Lenovo Googlebook 2-in-1.