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In this one, we'll take a first look at the Acer Chromebook 14 as we unbox it and give some initial impressions!
[ the first version of the video didn't have the final 2 minutes of wrap up and Octane testing...sorry! ]
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hey folks Robbie pay here with chrome
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unbox coming at you today with an
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unboxing of the Acer Chromebook 14 now
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this is not the Acer Chromebook 14 for
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work uh that is a device that's going to
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be a little bit more difficult to get a
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hold of um at this point Acer did start
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selling the uh consumer version of
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v14 and it is the all
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aluminum uh clad device versus the one
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with all the waterproofing fun stuff
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going on in the glass top so as we can
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see here let me see if I can get this a
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little
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closer focus in there we are working
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with Celeron it is quad core uh but it
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is the n316 60 um so it is in the um
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fanless class so not quite as strong as
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the core ey or the the Celeron that
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comes in that class um 4 gigs of RAM and
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uh um pretty awesome screen all metal
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build all that kind of stuff so I'm
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going bust into this guy and
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see see what's going on here
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questions concerns this is pretty
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standard Acer Fair small charger which
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is nice two
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pieces cloth we got the get started
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guide and yeah this is all the same
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stuff that's always been in every Acer
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Chromebook box thus far
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so and here it is there's a little
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sticker over the Crome
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logo hopefully that is
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removable
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um yeah we'll look at that here in a
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minute hopefully that's removable cuz if
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not that's kind of
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tacky I don't know that it is
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guys I don't think that's
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removable that is kind of tacky um maybe
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it will come off I don't know um you can
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see already that hand prits being left
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by my hands on it cuz it is all aluminum
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nice aluminum top nice aluminum bottom
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came out of a FedEx truck so it's a
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little chilly uh but is collecting we
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got speaker grills down here Fort screws
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no fans um nothing across the back on
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the side over here two USB 3.0 uh 31s I
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believe uh full size HDMI Kensington
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lock over here have earphone jack and
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power uh there is no SD card slot on
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this um so you're Rel ated to using USB
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uh if you want to expand storage in any
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way shape or form surely to goodness
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that thing comes off there I know I'm
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really spinning some time on this but
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it's really bizarre okay let's open it
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up and there's a good
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chance as with most Chromebooks it won't
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power
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on no so when I'm kind of getting the
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plug arranged here we'll talk over a
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couple other things um I'll run a quick
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um
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Octane on it before we cut this one down
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but we're looking at a full 1080p uh I
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would call this like semi gloss uh it's
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probably going to be a bit um reflective
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or anti-reflective anti-glare
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um but it's not going to be completely
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anti-glare it does have some reflection
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in it so as long as it's decently bright
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it should hold up pretty
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well nice large trackpad
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hard to tell what it's made
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of I don't think that's glass but if it
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is it's a thin sheet it doesn't feel bad
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um texture is pretty good um I don't get
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the int like I don't think that's glass
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rubbing on it but it's not terrible um
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time will tell you know good trackpads
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work well over the course of hours not
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not just minutes so there's couple
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things going against it right now
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obviously that it just came out of a
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cold environment and is now in a warm
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one uh we are working with a full 1080p
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display it is 14 in and if I were to put
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it next to cuz I've seen this in videos
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if I were to put it next to a MacBook
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Air 13in uh the dimensions are pretty
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close so they've kind of crammed a 14-in
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screen and 13-in body which is kind of
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nice uh it doesn't it doesn't feel any
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bigger than the 13-in devices I've used
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uh just from handl it sure all right
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guys real quick uh before we sign off
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I'm going to run uh an octane and this
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is as guessed so we don't have a bunch
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of my stuff running or trying to install
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in the
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background
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um and while it's running after just the
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first few minutes of this machine I I I
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am a little disappointed in the screen I
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do realize it's a $300 machine um that's
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just kind of part of it but uh with what
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Acer has done and other machines like
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the
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c910 um even though it what didn't feel
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like the most stunning display ever made
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um it felt um a lot brighter than this
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one this just feels really really muted
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uh off angle and even on angle it's not
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like it gets exceptionally better um so
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it's a little disappointing to see such
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a mediocre scen screen so um you know in
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the full review I'll I'll speak to how
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that works I'll take it down to the
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coffee shop and get you know sit outside
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that kind of stuff and just see how it
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does uh in the dayto day but um yeah not
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too excited about that also in the
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review we'll we'll get uh Crouton
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running yeah
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7888
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um this thing is not going to be a a
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speed demon by any means now likely with
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a score like that usually we're going to
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see um a Chromebook that handles sitting
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on the couch and browsing uh watching
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some Facebook doing your basic internet
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tasks um around the house type stuff um
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if you're getting into productivity
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stuff spreadsheets uh doing any kind of
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graphic work Crouton is probably going
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to tax it pretty hard I would guess uh
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but you never know benchmarks aren't
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everything and so I'll I'll put it
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through some Paces use it as a work
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device which I think taxes most
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Chromebooks as much as I know how to and
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uh I'll get back with you guys with a a
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full review and some impressions in you
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know maybe a week or so and uh until
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then guys thanks for watching uh if you
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whenever the full review comes out for
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this device and be on the lookout in the
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future for hopefully the HP Chromebook
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13 G1 um hopefully we're going to
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finally figure out a way to get a hold
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of that thing um and get it reviewed as
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well so until next time guys thanks
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