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hey folks probably paying with chrome
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unboxed here today with a full review of
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the Acer c720 P - 2600 layman's terms
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that is the acer c720 which everyone
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mostly likes some people love with the
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addition of a touch panel and a white
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exterior otherwise we're talking about
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the same machine as a source e720
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basically we're looking at the has
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world-class Celeron processors but the
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same has well a class processor that's
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in the HP 14 the other Acer c720 s and
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the upcoming Toshiba Chromebook the
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differences we see internally on this
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one
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the only difference specifically that we
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see internally on this device is two
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gigs versus the four gigs of ram if you
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haven't already you can below the video
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you can subscribe you can see all the
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other chrome chrome centric reviews that
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i've done on the acer c720 before and so
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you'll see a lot of that stuff kind of
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rehashed in this review as well so we're
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dealing with pretty much the same
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machine here again with with 2 gigs less
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ram and we'll get around to that here in
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a few minutes but 16 gate 16 gig solid
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state drive internally same 1376 by 768
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or 1366 by 768 resolution on the display
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and and so a lot of things are the same
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here let's take a quick Hardware view
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real quick at the top again the same
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thing we're just not having the dark
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grey I'm just white here the texture is
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much smoother and actually has a more
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premium feel to it this time around so I
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do like that give them a thumbs up on on
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that change we'll take a quick view
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around the ports full-sized SD card USB
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2.0 over here kidding Tim Lock fan ports
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every really USB 3.0 the combo headphone
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microphone jack full size HDMI out and
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your charging connector and then down
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below fans and speakers this device
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actually there's a video of shared
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Google Plus this device can actually be
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opened up and the solid state storage
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can be traded out on it so that's a
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unique feature from what I understand
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the HP 14 you can do that as well and
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there are videos online from other
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people who have done such things I don't
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want to crack open a review unit but
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that is a possible thing on the inside
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you will notice a little bit of
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difference here on the other c720 you
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actually have a glossy plastic bezel all
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the way around the edge this one carries
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over the kind of matte finish from the
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front to this edge and then this part
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here begins kind of the touch screen
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covering which is plastic it's not glass
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but it overall has a higher quality feel
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to it especially this screen the bezels
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the screen itself does look better in my
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in my opinion over the Acer c720 simply
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because exersice 720 has a matte display
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and so there's kind of an anti glare
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finish over this obviously that I think
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is problematic with adding a touch
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screen element so we have a glossy
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display which a lot of people don't like
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you can actually see the tripod and the
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reflection here and so that becomes an
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issue because this screen is not that
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bright
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and so if the if the nits were higher on
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the on the display you could crank up
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the brightness and glare really just
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doesn't become an issue but because the
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screen isn't putting out that much light
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we run into some reflective display
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issues aside from that the display is a
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little bit more crisp because of the
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lack of that matte finish they in tech
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layer kind of adds a little bit of grain
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to the display so I did enjoy this
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display a little bit more than ice or
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c720 however I must say that the overall
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display quality is still really washed
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out it's it's someone on par with HP 14
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so they think they PHP 14 wins when it
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comes to straight-up display just just
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by looks right next to each other I do
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like the way it looks a little bit
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better while we're on the subject of the
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screen the touch screen works just as
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you would expect it to if I touch chrome
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here we launch into chrome click the
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google plus here I'll show you some
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scrolling on
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what we all know is one of the more
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difficult pages for Chromebooks to
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scroll scroll you can see it works just
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fine so that Haswell processors doing
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its job here no issues there
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pinch-to-zoom does not work I've
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attempted to go into the flags and turn
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on advanced gestures but I've not seen
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the ability for pinch-to-zoom to work we
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load up something that might
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let this get loaded here
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pinch-to-zoom there now I might be
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missing something there may be some
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other things I could do to enable that
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to work properly I've got to be honest
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with you having a device I figured maybe
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having a smaller device that I can keep
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in my lap around the living room not
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really during work hours but during
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those leisure hours having this guy on
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my lab that I might be prone to use the
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touch panel has not been the case for me
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chrome has really done a good job of
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optimizing your touch pad so between two
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fingers scrolling three finger swiping
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between tabs such as this in just your
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general usage of the touch pad I just
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don't feel like there's a whole lot of
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need to reach up and touch the screen it
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actually feels like it would be more
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work to do so so for me it just hasn't
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really been the touchscreen hasn't
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really been that useful so I take that
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with a grain of salt different people
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are gonna be different ways and so
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people will really deal with tablets a
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lot so they just have that inclination
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to touch the screen if that's the case
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having a touch screen Chromebook may be
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a great fit for you and I will show you
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one other thing regarding the touch
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screen you got the the many are the dock
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down here that you can swipe up and down
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which is kind of neat if we open up nice
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to cut the rope good touch
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touch screen game that originally
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started on you know touch devices and so
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yes you can play with the mouse but just
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as easily quick flick of the finger
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works really great so as as the gaming
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develops on Chrome OS possibly touch
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screen Chromebooks could be symptom that
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could be really awesome right now again
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like I said for me I just didn't in the
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views in it that much keyboard trackpad
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again you can see those things in the
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other review we're the same thing the
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the material on the trackpad is a little
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different a little smoother it does have
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the tendency to really collect the oils
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and stuff off your fingers so you had to
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wipe it off quite a bit but overall it's
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a very nice smooth performance
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the the mouse doesn't jump around all
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over the place and really just enjoy
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using the touchpad I will say the three
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fingers swipe between tabs I don't know
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if this is a processor based thing or if
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it's a sensitivity on the touchpad you
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can see right now it's not doing it okay
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pick it up come on there we go
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whereas on my HP 14 I mean that's just
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fluid every single time I put three
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fingers on and swipe you know you have
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ten tabs open and swiping between those
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just works this one sometimes black
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sometimes that we didn't pick up the
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third finger so I'm guessing it's
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probably a hardware sensitivity issue
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that don't think it's a hardware thing
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or a software thing or even an internal
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software thing because like the two
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finger back gesture pretty much works
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every single time so I'm thinking that
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picking up that third finger it's not
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quite happening and overall the device
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does not pick up fingerprints very badly
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consuming just wiping off a couple there
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but ultimately the whole thing's matte
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display I'm really too white much off at
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all did have to wipe the screen off I
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was trying to use forcing myself to use
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the touch display just to see how chrome
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handles it and overall I mean it does
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the things you expect it to do there's
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there's not a great experience with
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touch screen yet on Chrome OS it's not
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really tailored to that and so I mean
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closing things out selecting things
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clicking on links I mean it does all
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those things just fine but there's just
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not a whole lot of things that really
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necessitate touch at this point anyway
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with Chrome OS as far as the keyboard
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goes literally it's the exact same
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keyboard that's on the C 720 I believe
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it's the exact same keys as well and I
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had no problem with that I mean they're
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the keys a little plastic feeling
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travels pretty shallow but I had no
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problem punching out plenty emails
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documents all that kind of stuff there
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was no issue really and in that regard
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performance wise I do have to say this
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is the first this is the first has well
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based Chromebook I have used that has
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two gigs of RAM versus four so the HP's
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that I've used have all had four days of
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c720 I reviewed before had four gigs of
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RAM this is the first one with only two
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gigs of RAM and I was really curious to
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see how the device would fare once that
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once I got quite a few tabs open because
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really with Chrome OS that's the only
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thing that Ram
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does RAM helps you handle multiple tasks
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at one time and so I can show you this
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pretty quickly if I open up some some
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heavier pages let's go to YouTube
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let's open up Twitter and the verge and
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Engadget Android Central and last but
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certainly not least Chrome one box so
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this is one two three four five six
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seven eight tabs relatively heavy in
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their content so we've got a Google+ and
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when in open two of those guys and I'm
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actually gonna get a YouTube video going
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and we'll just do the unboxing of this
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particular device
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keep the volume up just a little bit so
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we know that it's running and you can
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already see it starting to struggle like
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once it gets the page loaded it's fine
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so no issues you can see some some lag
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here in the scrolling and again I'm
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pushing this thing so take that with a
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grain of salt so it's not doing too bad
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but you notice every page I load let's
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go back and see some of these you know
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I'm not getting the white screen yet
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which is good earlier I was getting some
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white screen when switching between
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pages so we're starting to see some of
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that page reloading happening let's push
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a little bit more studio press why not
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and Facebook and last but not least
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we'll do Google Drive so this gives us a
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total of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 let's
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just make it 12
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so now we start to see this happening so
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you can see the frame rates have
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completely bottomed out on the YouTube
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video but now that we're in it for a
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second
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looks like frame rates are okay again
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but things are not responding that well
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we're starting to see some some serious
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lag happen
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civil wars how about that and the big
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thing I ran into is after having a few
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tabs open and having some streaming
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music in the background the streaming
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music was kicking in and out and in and
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out in and out over and over and over
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and so uh so I'm kind of trying to
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replicate here
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like three fingers trying to swipe
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between tabs aren't a struggling with
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that
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and so it's not unusable by any means
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but you can definitely see really
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quickly where the the RAM starts to
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become an issue and so we're back and
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forth a little bit between this video
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and the music going again see yeah it's
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kicking the video off now
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I mean we're pushing it pretty well but
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I would venture to say after about 10
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tabs you're gonna start seeing some
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issues where that can run into problems
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is if you're running web applications
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that are saving things in the background
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if for whatever reason you jump to
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another tab and jump back before it's
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had a chance to save if you can you can
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run into a few issues there again
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day-to-day usage probably not going to
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be that big of a deal and I'm gonna have
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a video actually another video that is
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going to be coming up soon I'm actually
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gonna compare Vince the HP 14 and the
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Samsung Arm Chromebook all all
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side-by-side as far as their ability to
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cast tabs up to the chromecast and so I
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had a couple requests for that so we'll
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do that as well and you'll kind of see
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again a performance a slight performance
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gap with the two gigs of RAM so and
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answers to the question that I've seen
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going around Google+ in different places
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a lot the two gigs of RAM does make a
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difference and it it starts to beget the
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question why it is that we're seeing so
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many Chromebooks the Toshiba Chromebook
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that's coming the LG chrome base that's
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coming still be shipped with 2 gigs of
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RAM when we know that 2 gigs of RAM to
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add to that really wouldn't be that much
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to the bottom line they were talking
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about a handful of dollars here so I'm
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not sure exactly what's going on with
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that I don't know I don't know if
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there's a purpose behind that but it
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definitely does show a little bit of
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performance gap when being compared to a
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device that has a full 4 gigs of RAM so
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something to bear in mind with this
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device of if you're looking at it and
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you are a power user and you've got a
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lot of tabs open a lot and you're doing
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some some heavier
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work for me I probably heavy yeah I've
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got I've got Linux actually and booted
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up as well right now so I've kind of got
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that running in the background as well
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so if you're going to be doing a lot of
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those things you are going to see a bit
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of performance lag with the two gigs
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other than that performance has been
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solid the Haswell processor really
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pushes through lots of stuff and so
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that's not really a bother for for light
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daily usage as I said before the the
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display is a bit washed out it does not
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have the crispest display ever and a lot
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of these Chromebooks have the same
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problem we get these kind of mid-level
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specs when it comes to the screen and so
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there's an upcoming Samsung Chromebook
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that's supposed to be coming out and
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there really looks like they're gonna
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focus on the screen kind of just like
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the HP 11 did and hopefully that that's
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gonna that's going to mean we're gonna
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start seeing some quality displays
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nobody's shouting for Retina display on
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a MacBook in a Chromebook but it would
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just be nice to see something with
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really accurate colors it's not washed
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out it has great viewing angles because
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this one suffers the same way that the
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other one did as soon as we bend this
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forward you'll see the polarization
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everything turns inside out and same
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thing going backwards so when we get
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back far enough it's not nearly as bad
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that way when you tilt it forward you
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really polarize pretty badly but other
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than that the device has been good not
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great for me personally I'm sticking
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with my HP 14 still I enjoy its its
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performance mainly and its its ability
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to help me get work done and this thing
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is really close it really is something
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like this and a little bit larger form
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factor maybe I like that 13 inch form
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factor with 4 gigs of ram instead and
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that touchscreen could be a really nice
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combo and again this could be a really
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great around the living room kind of
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couch couch partner kind of thing a
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replacement for a tablet something like
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that that's a possibility I think
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but overall the the Acer c720 is is a
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good Chromebook it's not great one other
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thing I wanted to show just so you can
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see it
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a lot of people have asked for is the
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camera and this one is definitely subpar
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I'm not even sure if it's 720p to be
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honest with you hey guys
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and you'll see quite a bit artifacting
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it's relatively well lit in this room
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but yeah quite a bit of artifacting
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motion capture is pretty decent and so
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just wanted to show you that really
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quickly the the HP is definitely a
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better a better camera for sure on the
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front-facing it'll get you through video
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chats it's gonna do just fine for those
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kind of things and like I said for a lot
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of things this Chromebook will do just
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fine it's it's going to power through
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all your sights you know we've we've
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used Google Plus as a litmus test a lot
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for for these things and you see two
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finger scrolling is perfectly smooth
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scrolling on the screen is perfectly
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smooth so in no way in the end of this
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am I trying to say hey this is a poor
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Chromebook or it's a poor performer I
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just do I want to make sure that to
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highlight the fact that there is a
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noticeable difference and a gap in
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performance between the two and the four
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gigs of RAM and I know for me personally
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that has caused cause me to rethink the
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the possibilities because I was really
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excited about the Toshiba Chromebook I
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like the look of it as silly as it is I
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like the fact that you can lift the
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display with one finger I think that's
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just a sign of good craftsmanship so I
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was excited to see somebody do that and
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one of the little hands on and I was
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just excited about the form factor
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everything about it really was kind of
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exciting but it's chipping with two gigs
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of RAM and after using this guy for the
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the better part of the week I don't
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think that's gonna be something that
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that I'm ready to sacrifice on if it had
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a majestic display and bigger drive and
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even a faster processor or something
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than the HP I still would be reluctant
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to jump ship to gig a to gig setup at
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this point so here's to hoping we start
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seeing four gigs be the norm with
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Chromebooks again I don't know what
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exactly is going on it can't be just
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about money it seems like there's some
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sort of push by someone to get those two
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gigs those two gig models out there and
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so on
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not exactly sure what what the deal is
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with that but hopefully we start seeing
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at least the option you know let charge
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me an extra 40 50 bucks and give me an
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option to go to four gig and I would be
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happy and as I know a lot of you would
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be as well and so if you have any other
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questions just as you always have feel
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free to leave those in the comment
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sections below again watch the see 720
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review I talked about a few other things
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in that review than I did in this one
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hopefully between the two that would
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cover pretty much everything you need to
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I'll pop a link for that video down
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calm and there I cover a lot of other
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news tidbits and things that don't
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really pertain to making a video of
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something like I say to keep your eyes
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peeled as well for the upcoming HP 14
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versus Acer c720 versus Samsung arm when
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it comes to casting tabs to your
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chromecast well what we have in that
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video coming up soon again you guys have
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a great day thanks for watching and
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