In the long contest between technology giants to define how people work and create, Google has opened a new chapter with Googlebook — a premium laptop line beginning at $899, woven through with its Gemini AI assistant and designed to dissolve the boundary between phone and desktop. The launch arrives not in calm waters but amid a shifting tide, as Apple's newly affordable MacBook Neo at $699 challenges the very segment where Google's Chromebooks have long found their footing. Google's answer is not to race downward on price, but to climb toward a more integrated, more intelligent vision of per