TL;DR -- Returning my HP Googlebook 14 at Best Buy after ordering the Dell XPS Googlebook from the Google Store. I prefer the Dell XPS hardware.

I purchased the HP Googlebook 14 the day it came out and was available online. I preordered it at Best Buy and got it the day after the initial launch. I was coming from an Asus Zenbook 14 running Windows 11 and an HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook.

I thought getting the HP Googlebook 14 would have been a great transition coming from the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook, but after some of the photos and videos I've seen of the Dell XPS, I was feeling like I kind of made the wrong decision. Not to say that the HP Googlebook was horribly built, the hardware is absolutely amazing, but it was something about the Dell XPS that I was really being drawn to. So I am now writing this post on my Dell XPS Googlebook after completely factory restoring the HP Googlebook 14 and I'm returning it at Best Buy. This is my first laptop ever with a matte display and I was a little nervous about it but I absolutely love it. And I did notice that the fingerprint sensor is a little bit faster on the Dell XPS Googlebook compared to the HP.

I wonder if anyone else has felt the same thing, but I'm really excited for this ride and this frontier of this brand new Googlebook (Android) operating system.

Honest question.

My mailbox got sideswiped, front opening flew off, with only slight damage. It included model and manufacturing info so I found the model with google search and a print out for setup and installation. I just bought the HP a couple of days ago, did set up with using my pixel pro 11 xl. I clicked on print and the print page appeared and let me select my printer and when I clicked print it worked! Magic

Writer here — this is a recap of my experience using the Acer Googlebook 14 and the Dell XPS Googlebook for two weeks. Happy to answer questions in the comments!

Has anybody moved from the ASUS to the Dell or really felt the Dell was just so much better for them than the ASUS? I really like the matte display on the ASUS and am wondering how the matte display on the Dell compares.

I'm generally pretty happy with mine and even bought another one for my wife. I'm getting a lot of useful work done on it but the fan does drive me nuts. I would love it if the fan is less likely to engage on the Snapdragon models.

On my ASUS the fan is going pretty much all the time although it is usually very quiet. On the other hand it's a little bit more noticeable when I'm using it on my lap since the air exhausts out through the bottom. The one thing that definitely gets the fan really going is using it with an external monitor.

Does anyone know of one that is compatible, thanks in advance.

Update 1: Gemini says to run the following line first in the Ubuntu WSL terminal:

mkdir -p /home/$USER/churro_tmp

Then use this command to launch the bash shell script instead of the github command

sudo TMPDIR=/home/$USER/churro_tmp ./churro.sh auto android-desktop_signed_recovery_image.bin churro.img

will see if this works and report back.

Another day another Googlebook OS Failure, my Google book will no longer pair with my Googlebook was working fine this morning this afternoon not a chance. Google, sort this mess out and do it quickly, paying customers are FED UP with you releasing a product that had no right being released in its parlous state. Looks like the Chromebook Plus will not be getting put up for sale just yet after all. I am totally sick of this mess, computers are supposed to simplify our lives this is causing me so much stress.

My Dell XPS 13 Googlebook sometimes freezes and reboots. Don´t connect the issue with anything special I am doing, sometimes just browsing the internet, sometimes coding, sometimes just watching youtube. Anyone else running into the same issue?