MOUNTAIN VIEW, Sept. 23 -- Four months of renders and roadmap slides gave way to something more consequential on Monday morning: you can actually buy a Googlebook now.

Pre-orders opened at 9 a.m. ET across the Google Store, Best Buy, and a handful of other retailers, with shipments from five OEM partners scheduled to reach U.S. buyers on October 4 and reach Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, and Australia a day later. Starting prices begin at $899, putting the first wave of Google's Gemini-powered laptop line at the upper end of the mainstream market, above most Chromebooks, competitive with mid-range Copilot+ machines, and within reach of Apple's MacBook Neo.

The laptops run AluminiumOS, Google's Android 17-based des...