The Ace Hotel NYC is now equipping its rooms and lobby with sexy black matte Google Chromebooks swathed in an Etsy-esque buttoned slipcover and a pre-loaded virtual concierge app, the Ace Hotel New York's Field Guide. They're calling them Ace Chromebooks. Wee! Is the Chromebook the new iPad?

Not exactly--the Ace is going for more of a "nerd cool" kinda vibe. "For guests, we're laying out an extra gift: an Ace x Google designed notebook--with real paper--wearing a John Milton quote from 1634," the press release says. Chromebook + Ace Hotel + effete literary reference? You just can't get this kind of cred from the Empire or Airbnb.