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In this video, I unbox the Acer Chromebook 13. The much-anticipated Chromebook has a 13" FHD display, 4GB of RAM and the Tegra K1 Processor. How does it actually pan out? Check it out to see what my first thoughts are!
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hey folks robby payne with chrome
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unboxed here coming at you today with an
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unboxing of the acer chromebook 13.
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this is a much anticipated device as
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most of you probably know by this time
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this device is the first chromebook
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available
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running the tegra k1 processor
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and so what that kind of brings is a
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hope of a fanless thin powerful design
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it has a gp with 192 cores it is an arm
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processor
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but it is a very very high powered one
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that is featured in the nvidia shield
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tablet at this point in time
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now at this point
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there is also the new hp 14 that's
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coming
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coming out i think in october at some
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point
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that is also going to feature this
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processor as well but for right now this
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is the the main chromebook with that and
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along with that
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from what i've read online some some
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premium build pieces too 1080p screen 4
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gigs of ram a nice spacious keyboard 13
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inch design
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some better plastics used it is still
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plastic throughout and not an ips
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display and from what i've read again
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not the best display in the world so
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kind of bummed about that but we're
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going to unbox it look and see what's
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inside the box real quick kind of get an
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initial hands-on and i'll be using this
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uh for some
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work related things in the next week
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kind of get back with you and let you
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know
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what i find out with it
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as i've said there are a lot of reviews
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that dropped a few weeks ago
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from some of the more uh major tech
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firms there to get their hands on this
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and we have time to use it
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so
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this isn't the first hands-on by any
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means
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and this box has been beat up
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but having used pretty much every
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chromebook that's available hopefully i
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can give you a good uh
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a good a good idea so uh we got a pretty
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standard looking acer box here
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no real frills on the outside it looks
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like that same
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troublesome
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opening here that
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i think by now i finally got good at
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opening this thing
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makes it easier they didn't tape
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overnight over top of this part
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whole lot simpler to open
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and pretty standard favor when it comes
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to acer packaging just looks like a
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bigger version of the c720 packaging
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same kind of stuff
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um
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plug's a little different um
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a little more narrow here with the c720
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we kind of get the more square but thin
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um this is more along the lines of what
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samsung does with theirs
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and of course
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your normal
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acer
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um warranty stuff fcc info that kind of
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thing
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a couple extra cardboard pieces here
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excuse me
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setup guide which every time i open one
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of these i say this don't really need
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those
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so much with chromebooks
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and so let's get this
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out of the
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way bring this guy into view now um
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first blush i'm looking at it and
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feeling it going feels a lot like the
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c720p white um because i actually do
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kind of like the feel of the the white
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c720
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um
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very thin very slim line
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hopefully you can tell that kind of from
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this video very very thin
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ports across the back not sure how i
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feel about that yet but after some time
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we'll get uh we'll get used to it and
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see how it feels
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3.0 here hdmi full size another 3.0
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which is nice so they didn't go down to
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2.0 so you got two three usb 3. uh
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full-size sd card slot looks like it's
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going to fit flush
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in there we will find out again on that
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i know a lot of you guys care about that
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uh speaker ports on the bottom so we'll
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see how that speaker quality sounds and
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then a relatively decent finish here um
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obviously matte finish i'll touch on it
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here a little bit and i can't really
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reflect any light off of it because it
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doesn't reflect anything and so it's
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pretty hard to see it does pick up some
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fingerprints not too shabby on the
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bottom
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not really much at all a little more
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texturized down here all the screw ports
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are are available here so i'm assuming
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you probably pop this open and maybe
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mess with the the ssd in it i'm not sure
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let's go ahead and open this up
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no one-handed open that stinks i'm
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still waiting for another chromebook to
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have that feature
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uh we have the full hd 1080p hd
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and
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it amounts to very nice travel on the
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keyboards are on the keys and the
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keyboard
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very nice and spacious lots of room
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again track pad a lot of these build
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materials feel a lot like the c720p i'm
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surprised nobody's really pointed that
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out but i'm using the c720p the white 32
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gig four gigs of ram as my daily driver
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now and so uh it it feels a lot like it
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and so i'll definitely put these side by
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side in the review so you can kind of
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see the similarities there
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keys feel way better than the c720p
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though
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the 720 to me feels a little mushy a lot
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of times these have some some good
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travel some good click
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yeah i like that a whole lot better
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trackpad feels very similar as far as
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the texture to the c720
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however the uh the click sounds real
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nice um and i know some of you probably
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don't really care about that but uh to
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me it's just a marker quality uh when
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there's a loud hollow sounding kind of
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clacky uh sound it it just reeks of poor
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build and this this sounds very solid uh
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kind of nice and quiet so uh and the
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trackpad feels nice very nice smooth
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plastic let me plug this guy in because
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it's gonna see if it'll
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as many of you all know these things
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ship
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and they're unable to turn on until
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they've been plugged into a power source
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and
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that was closed
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luckily there's a boiler right behind me
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here so bear with me for just a second
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we don't have to bother cutting away
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so far i'm a big fan of the build the
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feel the look um
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of the device
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uh i have a gut feeling i'm not gonna be
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real happy with the monitor
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on the display um
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seems to be an ongoing trend but you can
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see i mean the
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hold this way
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the thinness of this guy's is impressive
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uh it's got some heft to it it's not uh
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it's not like no creaking though i mean
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it's just solid you know let's kind of
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hold by the corner test and see if it
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creaks and moves none of that's going on
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matte finish display not not always the
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biggest fan of that myself
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um
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it is useful if you are
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outdoors but for the most part
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i think it degrades the quality of the
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display a little bit so i'm not a huge
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fan of that
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but it is what it is
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it kind of gives the a grainy look to
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the display and it is doing that exact
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thing here
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um
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crank up the brightness a little bit
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yeah that's that's unfortunate
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let me get on the wi-fi network here so
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we at least get signed in
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and again we have some of the issue with
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the 1080p
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screen being
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making things a little
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small it's just going to be the way it
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is until chrome os has some scaling
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ability
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and at that point really
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um you really just need to be able to
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scale up a handful of things in the in
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the ui not really everything across the
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board be nice if you just make the icons
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a little bigger that kind of thing
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keyboard feels great
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really really great trackpad feels
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really good too real responsive nice and
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smooth
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there's no way for you all to tell here
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but if you've ever looked at a
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at a matte finish display acer c720 i'm
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trying to think of another that had a
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matte finish on it it causes the
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the anti-glare film kind of causes some
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issue with transparency so instead of
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like looking through glass and looking
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at a screen it's kind of like you're
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looking through uh
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the best thing i can i can relate it to
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is if you're looking at a phone that's
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been against someone's face for a little
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while and they pull it away and you look
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at it it's kind of got the grimy stuff
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on it from their face um that's kind of
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what this looks like
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it's not pixelization it's
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it's just granular it's hard to explain
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but it's
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it's actually really pronounced way more
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than um
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way more than i expected it to be to be
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honest with you so that's kind of a
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letdown
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let me set it to
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darker wallpaper and see if it's less
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pronounced here
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if it's going to let me
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yeah and on darker darker stuff it's
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nowhere near as pronounced the lighter
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colored stuff like even right now i can
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see around here uh you get that it just
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looks like there's a film on it but you
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can't get that off granted it's nice
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because i can tilt it anyway and there's
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no glare but again with this particular
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display
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you can see as soon as i tilt it forward
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you get polarization
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when we tilt back we get
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uh let polarization
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see are we in the kind of sweet zone
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here and then i'll turn it to the side
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side viewing angles aren't bad
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not at all actually
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that's nice at least you get two of the
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angles aren't that bad go ahead and plug
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this now let's start it up
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um overall
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i i really enjoy the build quality the
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big test for this thing obviously is
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going to be this is the first one with
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the k1 processor in it how's it going to
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perform how's it going to feel how's it
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going to do
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a lot of the online reviews already have
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the two
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gig of ram version and i know there's a
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lot of you out there that would say it
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doesn't matter two gigs of ram versus
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four for me uh daily use makes a huge
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difference
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i've used c720s and i've used the asus
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chromebook and i've used multiple
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chromebooks with two gigs of ram and run
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into lots of issues whereas when i use
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them with four gigs of ram have no
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issues so perhaps i'm a heavy user or i
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i don't think i like that many tabs open
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but i do keep a lot of stuff going
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maybe that's just a requirement i need
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but i will let you know
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again i've right now kind of the
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reference i'm going against is an acer
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c720p so touchscreen non-matte display
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1366x768
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it's got four gigs of ram 32 gig
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internal hard drives and so
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uh this is uh stacks up pretty well
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against that uh this matches all of
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those things we're just swapping out the
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processor and removing the touchscreen
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getting a 1080p display so those things
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do matter 1080p versus
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basic hd 1366 by 768 is a little higher
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than hd but anyway
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full hd versus that it's a lot more
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pixels to be pushing and so
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it'll be interesting to watch and see
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and i will say my c720p i keep connected
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to a full hd monitor almost all the time
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all day every day so i have not noticed
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any skips any lags any stutters none of
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that stuff it really just moves through
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anything i needed to do so i'm holding
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this to that same
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that same level of performance and
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saying okay we don't need to step back
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way way back uh if it has a hiccup here
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there you know for the thin fanless
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design that might that might be
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something you say hey i'll give up on
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that so that when some of these 3d games
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start coming via
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android
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apps being on my chromebook i'll take it
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and that might be you um and i will say
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from right here the screen uh isn't
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isn't repulsive it's not very bright
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but you know it's sharp it's it's nice
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looking
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and again without being against white
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backgrounds i guarantee i open this up
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yeah i'll see that
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really
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really annoying
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film over the screen
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but on the darker stuff where there's
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more color on the screen it just looks
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it looks really great and to be honest
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um maybe i was a little shocked when i
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got the chromebook 2 with a 1080p
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display it's not bothering me nearly as
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much this time around
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everything being a little smaller and i
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would say if you wear glasses and uh
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have issues seeing smaller text that is
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going to bother you but anyway that's
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enough about this for right now
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i'll spend a week week and a half with
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it get back to you with a full review
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let you know kind of what i'm thinking
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about it
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how it's performing with with this
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particular chipset in it and
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how it can stack up against last year's
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haswell chips and because it doesn't
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look like we're seeing a lot of has
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while coming down the pipe it's either
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this taker k1 it's uh the bay trail
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stuff so
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um maybe we're at the end of seeing as
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well and um possibly who knows we might
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see some sort of broadwell chip i know
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it's probably not going to be the core m
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because those are expensive chips but
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as some of those new broadwell chips
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come out we'll probably see some of
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those in chromebooks in the next six
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months or so so
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uh we're in an interesting time right
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now in the in the life cycle of the
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chromebook and so
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hopefully hopefully this uh
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step in and direction of a different arm
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processor isn't a huge step back in
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performance that's that's what i'm
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hoping but we will see and uh i'll get
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back to you like i said in a week week
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and a half with some thoughts on that
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some comparisons to the c720p but until
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then
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