The Google wizard has the days counted. The company itself has confirmed this week, with the announcement that Gemini will be in charge of replacing it in all products in a massive operation that will last several months, possibly several years. The smartphones have been the first to start the change, with the arrival of the Gemini app; But curiously, they are not the first to complete the change.
That honor is the chromebook laptops, which this week have received update to the Version 134 of the Chromeos Operating System. The great novelty is the implementation of Gemini’s artificial intelligence for all user assistance functions; For practical purposes, the Google wizard has completely disappeared from the system.
In fact, the change has been made completely transparent for the user, which from one day to another will go from using Google Assistant to Geminiwithout doing anything; A great contrast regarding the situation on smartphones, where many models still use Assistant and there will be mobiles that will never receive the update to Gemini for technical limitations.
The Arrival from Gemini to Chromeos It should be a great blow to Google, and possibly, a reason to buy a Chromebook. Until now, these computers have not been able to compete directly against Windows 11 models, and their success has been limited to students and other users for which the price is a fundamental factor in the choice of a computer.
With Gemini, Google can boast of having a Computer operating system with an integrated AIwhich already works with most of the company’s apps and offers access to advanced functions such as uploading their own files to analyze and access research consultations with Deep Research.
Gemini in a Chromebook
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In addition to Gemini, Chromeos 134 brings several interesting novelties, including the ‘slow keys’; This accessibility function is designed to attend people with limited skill or with symptoms such as tremors, arthritis or lack of sensitivity in the fingers.
This normally hinders the pulsation of keys with precision, but now Chromeos can help us, introducing a delay between the moment we press the key and it is recorded. With this option activated, the keys will have to be kept for a certain period of time to be registered by the system; This avoids, for example, the accidental brackets of keys.
Among the rest of novelties, the possibility of Insert animated gifs In any message and document directly from the ‘insert rapid’ menu. On the other hand, this version of Chrome finally does not bring one of the most requested functions, the battery charge limit; Similar to smartphones, this function could expand battery life preventing it from being completely loaded. However, Google would not be happy with the state of this new function, and has delayed it for the next version.
