Hello, Googlebook: The complete FAQ on Google’s Android-ChromeOS combo

Googlebook, Googlebook, Googlebook. Google’s mysterious new Android- and ChromeOS-combining laptops have been the talk of the town here in the land o’ Googley matters for much of this year already — and their name also makes for an incredibly challenging tongue-twister to say, as an added layer of intrigue. (Seriously: Try saying it 10 times fast. It ain’t easy.) All linguistic feats aside, the story with the Googlebook so far has mostly been one of questions — with Google giving us shockingly little solid info about what these systems are actually all about, what they’ll be like to use, and how they’ll fit into the broader Android and Chrome ecosystems that’ve existed around us all this time. For the first time now, we’re finally getting some solid answers. The first-ever Googlebooks are up for pre-order as of this week and set to become broadly available in early October. I had the opportunity to check in with Google ahead of the announcement, ask some questions, and get some inside info about all of the many unknowns surrounding these systems. Here, with no punches pulled and no stones left unturned, is everything we know — going far beyond the spotlighted talking points that y…

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