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all right so new in the office is the
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Acer Chromebook 7:14 if you remember
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alongside its brother the 715 Acer
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announced these back in May at their big
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event we went to it New York and we
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actually spent some time hands-on with
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these and there's videos and posts on
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the website you can go take a look at if
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you'd like to but we just got it in the
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office we've kind of been waiting on
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these things because if you remember the
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715 came out it was the first one with a
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numeric keypad and these are both the
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first devices with fingerprint scanners
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on them except for the pixel slate so
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they had some cool superlatives at the
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time and we've been excited to see them
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and honestly expected to see them like
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June July timeframe so we're a little
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bit behind schedule but we wanted to go
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ahead and open it up and you know give
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you some first impressions of what it's
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like to actually have it here in the
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so a quick reminder of what we're
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working with here we're talking all
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aluminum build very kind of plain and
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understated it's an enterprise focus
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device 14 inch screen 1080p anti glare
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touch screen this model comes with the
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core i3 so 8th gen so think you know
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dell inspiron chromebook lenovo c63 that
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whole line it's it's part of the Namie
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family of devices for those of you that
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follow along with baseboards and all
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that stuff so nothing new really into
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the hood that we haven't seen before
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eight gigs of ram comes with this one
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and 64 gigs of internal storage backlit
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keyboard the keys are really nice and
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quiet I've kind of messed around with
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them just kind of off camera over here
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just a little bit but one of the more
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striking parts of this is the huge
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trackpad on here so it's got the same
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size trackpad you see unlike the 15 inch
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Acer Chromebooks and that's one of my
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knocks that I had with the spin 13 which
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this device reminds me of a little bit
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just because the all aluminum and it's
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kind of got a surge design look to it in
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general but the spin 13 has this kind of
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really narrow trackpad and this one has
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that big nice almost square slab of
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glass right at the bottom feels nice and
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smooth click is quiet so the trackpad
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already feels really nice
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again the backlit keys look really good
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and then you get this superlative here
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with the fingerprint scanner again we've
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not seen this since the pixel slate and
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no other Chromebook in almost a year now
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has equipped a fingerprint scanner and
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so I went ahead and set it up real quick
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as we cut and it works just like you'd
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expect just like on the pixel slate
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logged in and that's all it takes and so
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I can imagine myself getting kind of
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hooked to this over the course of
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reviewing this device like the ability
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to just open it up and touch and be in
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that's pretty awesome but overall the
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thing feels great feels really solid
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there are some design parts here that
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feel a little bit like an Acer
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Chromebook that I dogged on just a
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little bit the 5:14 I think so some
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parts from just looking at it they kind
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of looked like that but I can tell you
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already just handling it it doesn't feel
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anything like that device this one feels
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way more premium it feels lighter than
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it deserves to be at all aluminum and 14
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inches and it's got nice slim bezels on
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the side so I don't know a lot to like
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here and I'm obviously going to spend
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some time with it and get a full review
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but we wanted to give you just some you
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know quick first blush takes on this
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device since we just got it in the
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office I haven't seen it in a long time
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and I'm pretty excited to actually use
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it as my daily driver for the next bit
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until we get a review to you but guys
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