Not satisfied with having one laptop platform, Google introduced Googlebooks — Android-powered laptops. The official page for the platform lists laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Now it appears that Samsung will be joining the party soon with a Googlebook of its own.
We don’t know what it will be called, as Geekbench 7.1.0 only lists its model number — Samsung XE940XSA. Samsung has a “Galaxy Chromebook” for Google’s other laptop platform, so a “Galaxy Googlebook” name seems like a natural, if awkward, fit.
Samsung Googlebook (XE940XSA) result on Geekbench 7.1.0
The chipset is listed as “Hamoa”, which is Qualcomm’s code name for the Snapdragon X Elite. It’s a little disappointing that Samsung didn’t use an X2 series chip, but it’s not alone in this — the Dell and HP Googlebooks also feature the X Elite. Meanwhile, the Acer, Asus, and Lenovo laptops use an Intel Core Ultra 5.
All Googlebooks so far have 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Geekbench confirms 16GB of RAM for the Samsung model. The laptop ran Android 17 — again, this is not a Chromebook. It should include One UI customizations to the standard Googlebook UI, though those have not been seen yet.
Googlebook laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo
The Snapdragon X Elite is a 4nm chip with 12 Oryon cores and an Adreno X1-85 GPU. Based on the clock speeds reported by the benchmark, this appears to be the X1E-80-100 variant, which is also used in the Dell and HP models.
Back in 2024, Samsung released the Galaxy Book4 Edge, which ran Windows 11 on X Elite chips — the X1E-80-100 for the 14” model and, optionally, the X1E-84-100 for the 16” model. More recently, the company introduced the Galaxy Book6 Edge, which steps up to a Snapdragon X2 Elite chip (X2E-88-100). The Samsung Googlebook’s use of the older X Elite suggests it may be positioned as a more accessible entry point into the Googlebook lineup.
