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      13 hours ago

      Well, for one, it’s not a Macbook. They’re calling it a “Googlebook” (because Pixelbook was already taken by a dead project of Google), and they say it will have seamless integration with Android devices. It’s that “Aluminium OS” that was leaked a while ago. I feel like it’s interesting, but probably not for me.

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              10 hours ago

              But just because the UI “is ugly” doesn’t mean the product does not / should not exist. There are plenty of good reasons to hate on this Googlebook. For one, LLMs and AI-gen images are featured heavily, which nobody really asked for. But “ugly so no exist” isn’t a very convincing argument, and design is subjective. I personally think Material You looks fine, but perhaps it does look a bit out of place in a desktop environment though.

              At least you corrected it’s vs its