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In this review, I re-review the Acer C910 with the Core i5 processor. The original review covered the Celeron model. Enjoy!
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[Music]
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hey folks Robie pay with chrome unbox
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coming today with kind of a mini review
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um since I've already done a review of
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the Acer c910 now this is the I5 model
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with uh 4 gigs of RAM and I've been
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using this this as uh my daily driver
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now for ah jeez pretty much since it
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came out um I had the Chromebook Pixel
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there for a little bit but the uh you
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can watch the review about my U
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criticisms of the screen size and why it
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just wouldn't working for me so I went
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back to this once I found out there was
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an i5
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model um because an i5 and a Chromebook
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just absolutely screams uh the thing
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never Waits on anything um it just it
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moves moves so quickly and um apart from
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that it's got a really good screen I
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don't want to say it's just the most
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miraculous screen ever but it's a really
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good screen uh you can tell IPS gives
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you good viewing angles from any angle
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uh left right front center all those
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things so uh looks good color
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reproduction is pretty good it's a
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little off in that but I work from a
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secondary monitor so it's not a huge uh
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huge problem for me um I'm not going to
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go over a lot of stuff you know you got
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your front facing speakers nice elect
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trackpad full sizee keyboard um quickly
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walk around in case you didn't see the
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other review USB 3.0 fulls size HDMI
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headphone microphone slot power jack on
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the other side you have a USB 2.0 which
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kind of stinks um fulls sizee SD card
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slot Kensington lock fans across the
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back nothing across the front save some
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LEDs and on the bottom some vents for
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fans uh nothing terribly exciting going
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on here um it is a decent looking device
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uh when the lid is closed it's got this
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kind of clothes feel to it it's I mean
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it's not the chunkiest thing I've ever
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seen it's not the slimmest thing either
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but it's not offputting in any way shape
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or form uh just it's a decent laptop um
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and while I would like something that
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has a little more flare to it or
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something that just is a little more
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awesome um aesthetically it's a good
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device I get signed back in here
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[Music]
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and so I've got a few questions from
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some people about whether or not it's a
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great device uh it really is I do wish
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they made one with 8 gigs of RAM every
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once in a while because I have Crouton
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running in the background pretty much
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all the time uh with inkscape going in
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it um I do wish they made one with 8
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gigs of RAM just to to help me out there
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um and you'll see like some of the
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things are kind of small I am running it
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at 1080p um some of the pieces are a
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little bit small but not bad I mean text
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on page we'll go
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to the verge just cuz I want to show you
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the performance of this Beast as well
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you see it loads it up really quickly um
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and scrolling is just smooth Now The
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Verge always does this it takes a second
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to load in bajillion pictures they have
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on their site but that's the reason I
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come here uh to show off performance on
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phones or where they're struggling and
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you can see there's videos running over
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here and pictures all over the place and
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this thing is just buttery smooth so
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we're going to go into whatever this is
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here my one complaint with the interface
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of the device my only complaint really
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is the trackpad picks up um oils pretty
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quickly so right now it's nice and
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smooth but in about 5 minutes if my
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hands are all greasy from anything um
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and you know later in the day your hands
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just kind of get oily um it really it
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starts to have a lot of you can see
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right there it's already if you can see
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that on camera if I push down much it
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picks that oil up and then it stays and
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then it's it's a little sticky
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so um so you can see text is I think
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perfectly readable and again you can go
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in in your settings and say hey bump the
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text up 110% you can actually set the
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the the standard zoom up you know that's
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125 that's feeling more like a 16 by9 or
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1 1600 by 900 display I mean that's if
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that's what you want I like I like
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having extra space on the desktop
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um let's run a quick
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octane you can just see I mean it just
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it waits for nothing thing just
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moves uh which is fantastic for work I
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mean I messed with a Windows PC this
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week actually and and it was a
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core i5 8 gigs of RAM solid state hard
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drive and it just felt so sluggish I'm
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gotten so used to Chrome OS this
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especially Chrome OS on decent Hardware
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uh it just moves so quick it is it is
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mindboggling once you get used to it
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it's really hard to go to anything else
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really really really hard
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um it'll be done with this here in just
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a second I'll play a little bit of music
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for you again so you can hear the
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speakers if um yeah look at that look at
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that octane score look how quickly it
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got done too pushing up to close to 2500
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or 25,000 it's insane
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um I just did a an unboxing of the Asus
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2011 which is the Rock Chip and it does
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okay and granted it's 150 bucks and
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that's pretty cool but it score was
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6,800 so you know this thing is it's not
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just a a little bit of a close battle I
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mean it's just blowing it out of the
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water and this actually has um we had
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inkscape sitting there in the background
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as
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well and so for those of you who do not
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do not have um crew time running in a
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window as long as you're not doing
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anything Hardware accelerated because
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you do lose Hardware acceleration um
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this is just a
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fantastic um setup if you have to do a
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few things in Linux because it just sits
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there like a window like no big deal um
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and so for me inkscape and filezilla are
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the two things I have to use in Linux um
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inkscape mostly 90% of my time is in in
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the Crouton is in inkscape uh and it
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runs perfectly on here like it's feels
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like it's native um and so that that was
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actually with Crouton open in the
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background and and I don't peek out the
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ram but every once in a while I do and
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boy you can tell it I mean the mouse you
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know basically stops and just won't move
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and until it finally shuts down whatever
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it is in the background then all my tabs
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all reset and that's a little
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frustrating I'm not going to lie
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especially if I'm I'm in the middle of
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something and I am working with some
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large images for a site or something and
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it that's frustrating and it's caused me
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to think I might end up moving back to
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uh the new Chrome boxes that are coming
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out um Asus has basically the same one
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that I had before um just with a I'll be
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able to get an i7 I think in it um and
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so I'll do that you know crank up the
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RAM and crank up the hard drive and
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really have a beast of a machine and
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probably uh Moby I was thinking of doing
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something like the Chromebook Flip or
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the c201 we'll see how those work uh cuz
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I I don't do a lot of work away from my
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desk and I I get so sick of staring at a
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computer screen to be honest with you
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when I walk away from work I don't I
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don't barely ever open up a tablet sorry
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about that um I don't barely ever open
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up a tablet or anything else um at home
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so something small like that would
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probably fit the bill for me um let's
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play a little music shall
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we and for those of you used to this you
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know this app web app tends to load a
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bit slow um almost things but not on
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this
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thing get some volume
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[Music]
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here
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have why don't you feel there s holding
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on this
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[Music]
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it's loud I'll give you that but it's
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still tinny um the range of sound is
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pretty limited uh they're laptop
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speakers what are you going to do uh but
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they're nice and loud uh especially
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since they're up here especially doing
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video chats or stuff like that it's
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really really good um but again
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everything inside this is the exact same
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as the other one that I had it just has
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the I5 and I wanted to show you octane
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uh kind of give you an up to- dat uh
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thing on on having worked with it for a
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while it's it's pretty Fant fantastic
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like I said if it had 8 gigs of RAM
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hands down best Chrome Chrome OS
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experience I've ever had easily easily
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uh 4 gig ram limitation is seems like it
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shouldn't be a big deal and honestly
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normal most days it's not it's just
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every once in a while I push past that 4
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gigs of RAM and it it just comes to a
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crashing halt for a few minutes until it
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can sort out what it's doing and like I
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said it it ends up if I have six or
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seven tabs open with stuff in them it's
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going to reset all those tabs
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and knock on wood so far that hasn't
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cost me any time or work yet but I hope
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that doesn't ever happen um anyway I
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just wanted to quickly uh come back and
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touch on this device the I5 to let you
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guys know uh it is a beast when it comes
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to speed it's octane scores are off the
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charts and that reflects real world use
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the thing doesn't just doesn't wait ever
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um and it's I'm very satisfied with it
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apart from the ram issue so um if you
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like this uh feel free to give it a
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thumbs up subscribe to the channel uh
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until next time talk to you later
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