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hey folks Robbie pay with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with an unboxing of
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the acter Chromebase 24 this is a 24in
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all-in-one Chromebook that was announced
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way back in January at CES and hasn't
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been available to the public until just
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now we got ours from Walmart it's
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available for multiple Outlets this is
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the base model with the Celeron 16 gigs
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of internal storage and 4 gigs of RAM it
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goes all the way up to an i5 with 8 gigs
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of RAM but this guy comes in at 4 $29 if
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you find it in the right place and in
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stock so we're excited to see how it
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performs under real world use but first
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we got to get it unboxed so let's get at
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it
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we've got keyboard uh Island style Keys
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uh huge travel on these things
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oh goodness gracious yeah so it's it's
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heavy
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oh interesting I'll turn this
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around so you can actually see um right
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here at top there's a a little
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adjustment here for your webcam so uh
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because we have a big screen and that
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thing's probably not always going to be
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pointed right at your face you can
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quickly tilt and lean your webcam um it
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feels like the screen uh can can
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actually move uh what do we want to say
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about 30° there straight up and down to
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90 so um you get a decent amount of tilt
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there cuz it is a glossy panel
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um so there is going to be some
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reflection uh for some people as they
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set this thing up
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uh just from a hardware perspective uh
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got to say it's it's very attractive um
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so the the assuming glass this might be
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plastic when glass gets thin it's hard
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to tell but the glossy part goes all the
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way to the edge so there's no real uh
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plasticky bezel save for right up here
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here and you got kind of this nice
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machine speaker grills across here we'll
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obviously take a look at those in the
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review and um talk about how good or bad
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those
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are let's look across the back
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here and we've got Acer and blazing nice
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and
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large across here we got this nice metal
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feeling um yeah I'm pretty sure that's
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solid aluminum uh the base is really
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sturdy which is very nice uh no
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plasticky cheapness going on here
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um you've got a fulls siize ethernet
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port uh HDMI out this is no not an input
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here uh two USB 3s and USB 2 power
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Kensington lock and that's about it it
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looks like for the ports uh this is
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probably fan Grill down here at the
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bottom oh we got a couple more things
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here on the side see let me tilt this up
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oh
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gosh it's really heavy um another USB
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3.0 so that makes three um headphone
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microphone full sizee SD card
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slot and some more fan fence right
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across the top there as that looks like
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about it as far as the hardware is
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concerned we're going to break away real
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quick and power this guy
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up all right guys we're back um after
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getting this thing powered on uh signed
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in all those kind of things we are
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running in guest mode um we have not yet
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reviewed a Celeron in the Skylake family
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so a six gen Celeron Processor yet so
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I'm a little eager to see how octane
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runs on this thing um couple quick notes
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um and and we'll we'll kind of wrap this
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thing up for today uh the keyboard and
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mouse as expected are really cheap
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feeling uh real plasticky and light but
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the travel on the keyboard is not that
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bad so if you're using this for a kiosk
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kind of setup or it's going in a library
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or that kind of thing I think the uh
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usability of both would be just fine
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they're nothing to
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um remark about they're just uh decent
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in general um the screen looks great
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1080p IPS uh viewing angles are really
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good so I'll turn this just a little bit
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to the side so you can kind of
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see we don't really see any issues as we
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turn from side to side and then as I
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tilt It Forward uh and back really you
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don't lose too much color just a little
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bit of brightness that you're kind of
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detecting on the camera there we got
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1,600 or
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16,25 5 which is Pretty stinking good um
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if you think back to uh fourth gen I3
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that's in the um Asus Chrome box that
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does really well and has really no
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issues whatsoever with performance gets
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around a 16,000 so uh we're seeing the
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cerons come up the uh the couple
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generations of processors from Intel
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have gotten better 16,000 to me guys get
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you in a Range where this is um
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completely acceptable performance and
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again we're going to talk about this
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stuff in uh full review after I've had
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some time to work from this device but
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um pretty pretty encouraging honestly um
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let me get logged in real
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quick because I would like to play these
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speakers real fast and see how they how
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they
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perform uh the screen is rated at 250
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nits of brightness uh and it's getting
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all of that uh really really bright nice
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vibrant colors as IPS panels are in
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general uh 1080p looks great on this
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size if you get up close yeah you see
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some pixels but you're not going to be
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working with your face right in this
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device so shouldn't be an issue um the
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HDMI out gives you the ability to set a
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second screen to the side of it really
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have a nice huge workpace which I'm
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looking very much forward
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to
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um we did this in the last review but
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we'll play a little John
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Bellon I tell you the speakers are loud
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um as you would expect a little mid
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[Music]
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heavy plenty loud though so if we're
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talking about doing things again in
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Kiosk mode or in some sort of public uh
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venue the the speakers are going to be
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plenty loud enough it's probably going
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to make for a really really great um
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Hangouts machine that kind of thing and
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so um really good there um I I don't
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really have much bad to say about those
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um we're going to go a and wrap this up
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um good looking screen kind of cheap
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peripherals decent speakers uh really
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nice base that can be detached so you
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can hang it on a wall if you want
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adjustable webcam beautiful screen nice
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and bright um my office sits right next
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to a window so I'll get a really good
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feel about how the glare and all that
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kind of stuff works as I work from this
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for a little while um and we will get
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back to you with a review and and tell
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you whether we not uh we expect this
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thing to be something that can replace
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your desktop uh or or be a machine that
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you can kind of go to on a day-to-day
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basis um it is a 6G um core processor so
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uh or at least in that family anyway so
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it will be getting Android apps uh
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whether it's on that page or not it will
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be getting Android apps at some point in
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time so um this thing could be a pretty
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awesome thing for a lot of people's
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homes uh schools tools Works libraries
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that kind of stuff so um keep it posted
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few things in the shoot here coming up
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um in addition to obviously uh getting a
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full review out of this device thanks
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guys for watching until next time we'll
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see you
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