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It's finally here! The Acer Chromebook 15 (C910-C37P) is in the house and I'm wasting no time getting my hands on it. There are tons of models, including a lesser-spec'd, low-res version. Many thought this model was that lower-end one. I'm happy to say it is not! Enjoy!
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[Music]
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hey folks Robbie Payne here with chrome
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unbox coming at you today with an
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unboxing of the Acer Chromebook 15 now
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for a lot of you I've seen there's been
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a lot of looking about what uh model uh
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the model that there are out there right
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now uh if this thing will focus there
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you go it
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is find the
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c910 c37 P there's a lot uh of talk
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going around that this is an education
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model and because it's a black one it
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doesn't have uh the full HD uh you can
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see here on the screen it's 15.6 in full
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HD IPS LED and that's actually printed
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on the box so um I went ahead and got
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this at first and started cancel the
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order because I was told it was an
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education model uh and then Brent
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Sullivan uh actually in the Chromebook
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community on Google+ said that he got a
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hold of a um somebody in shipping and
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found out that this supposedly was full
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HD so that's what it says on the box I
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just got the thing in so we're going to
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find out together whether that's the
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case or not but it looks to be uh like
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this is actually a full HD which lines
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up with prices because they said the
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education model was supposed to be 250
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this device was in fact 350
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so and as is the case with every Acer I
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ever open I can't open the box without
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ripping it some way shape or
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form there we
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go and packaging is pretty standard Acer
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Fair here
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power
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brick cable keep those close cuz it
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probably won't power on without them
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getting started
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guide um same old stuff so it feels like
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we're opening just a very large C720
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here and so those of you who are
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interested in this device know they kind
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of went with a uh f fabric like finish
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is what they said it is plastic it's not
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actually fabric uh feels
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interesting uh but it will looks like
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it's going to resist fingerprints pretty
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well and the bottom actually has that
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same finish to it so it's kind of a see
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if the camera will pick up on it kind
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like a diamond weave I it's interesting
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carbon fiber is but it does feel kind of
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like fabric so it's uh it's interesting
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uh but it looks good and again it
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resists fingerprints so let's get all
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this out of here
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[Music]
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and for comparison for those of you who
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own the
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hp14 here's it on top of
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it kind of lined up here so it is
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considerably larger than the
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HP4 and that to be expected you're going
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from a 14in to a 15.6 in display and
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this isn't going to be for everybody
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obviously um if you're looking for a
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Chromebook that easily fits into a purse
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or bag or something like that this isn't
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the Chromebook for
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you but it is uh what it does have
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inside is the um uh Broadwell celon
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processor the 3020 U I believe is what
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it is um so it's the first Chromebook
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technically to hit the market with that
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in it 4 gigs of RAM uh 32 gigs internal
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storage and it is
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massive and probably not going to power
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up okay we're back um real quick before
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we dive into anything else I'm take a
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quick hard tour around the hardware here
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across the front not much of anything
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save some LED lights here for charging
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probably network connection on the side
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here full sizee SD card slot uh USB 2.0
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in a
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Kensington back here just got a port for
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fans also some fan spots on the bottom
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there as
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well and then along the side full sizee
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SD card slot USB 3.0 uh headphone
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microphone Jack and charging
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port um
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it picks up a little bit of fingerprints
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but not too bad across the top um seems
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like more of perspiration kind of
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stuff all right now that we've got it
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all powered up and fired up let's take a
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look around the internals there are some
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interesting things actually under the
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lid on this device it seems like for
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many Chromebooks in a row there wasn't
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anything really new to introduce you
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open it up here we go it's a 1366 X 768
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panel uh that kind of stuff now the
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Toshiba Chromebook did bring uh IPS to
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um uh to the Forefront and this device
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does the same thing whether it
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technically is IPS or not uh it's that's
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just hard to say there's no way for me
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to know that what I can tell you is that
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the viewing angles are very wide uh from
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top to bottom left to right everything
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looks really great colors are crisp the
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blacks are really black uh everything
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looks really nice uh 1080p across 15.6
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in looks awesome um so you're not going
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to have to worry about any kind of
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scaling any of those things even though
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chrom OS takes care of that very well
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now uh trackpad is huge um very smooth
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very responsive um clicks are very nice
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uh impressed so far with what I've done
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with that and just typing passwords and
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stuff like that um the the keyboard
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travel feels really well really good um
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and uh the keys travel pretty well which
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you would expect with a deeper uh
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thicker device here um there's not a lot
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of give anywhere in this it's not creaky
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which is very good and then we have
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upward facing speakers here here so uh
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no gimmicks of sound coming through the
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keyboard This is straight up speakers
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right here on the face so I am going to
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play um a little bit of music real quick
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and see how that
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uh see how that works out and see how it
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sounds now of course in the review we'll
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we'll do some benchmarks I'll give you a
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better idea of battery life it's rated
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for 9 hours we'll see how that works out
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um and talk about performance of
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Broadwell over Haswell and see how it
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lines up from what I've seen online some
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people that have gotten the c740 which
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also has the Celeron Broadwell in it uh
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I've seen some people run um Octane and
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get somewhere between 13 and 14,000 on
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that so that's a bump in general usually
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I was getting 10 to 11 uh from the
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Haswell uh class Chromebook so that's a
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pretty good jump um 25 to
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30% and so
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let's
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see let's do this
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[Music]
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one for every time the tears are falling
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down your
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[Music]
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face time when all you can
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say let it
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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ready so yeah kind of what you'd expect
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from laptop speakers they're pretty thin
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sounding there's not a lot of back end
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uh not a lot of lows but they're really
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really loud um so that's kind of cool
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and it seems like that probably will be
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a good thing uh we'll test out some some
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uh Google Hangouts uh seems like it' be
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a really good thing if you're doing any
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video conferencing on it to have these
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speakers kind of right here in your face
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so uh that's it for today guys I just
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wanted to show you around open the box
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and let everybody know finally uh that's
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talking about it in the community and
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online that the C I've already forgotten
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the model of it again let's
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see the c910 c37 p is in fact a full HD
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version it is not the education model um
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so there are quite a few retailers
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actually that have this CDW a
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or ABT um and there's a couple others uh
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you can hit I'll tag Brent Sullivan uh
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when I put this on um Google+ he keeps
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up with who carries what where and so
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he's uh the one that helped me find this
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one and I don't think anybody else has
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attempted to buy one to see so just to
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let you guys know it is 1080p it looks
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like at least something approaching an
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IPS display and from all counts at this
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point I'm very impressed with this
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device so um I'll be back in a week week
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and a half maybe two weeks uh let you
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know I plan on working from this thing
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exclusively for the next couple weeks
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let you know how it holds up uh under
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day-to-day stress um and I plan from
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working from this device by itself no
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extra attachments keyboards monitors I
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just want to sit in front of this device
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for a little bit to kind of see how it
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works so I look forward to getting the
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review to you if uh you're new to the
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channel haven't been around uh please
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give the video a thumbs up if you like
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what you see subscribe to the channel
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and like I said about a week or so two
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weeks uh you'll see a review come up of
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this device until then have a good one
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