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Announced back at IFA Berlin in September, the Acer Chromebook R13 is finally here! This device ushers in a new wave of thoughtfully designed, convertible Chromebooks meant to take full advantage of Android Apps when they hit many Chromebooks this fall.
We are excited to have it in the office and will continue coverage of this device and many others over at chromeunboxed.com!
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hey folks Robbie pay with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with an unboxing and
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Hands-On of the Acer Chromebook r13 this
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device was announced back at epha in the
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beginning of September and we've been
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really excited to get our hands on it
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it's convertible it's got an arm
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processor it's got a really premium
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build and a pretty decent price tag at
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$399 so without any further Ado let's
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get in and unbox this thing
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all right guys so we're seeing a pretty
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basic Acer Fair here yeah this looks
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just like every other Acer device that
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uh we've ever seen before we get the
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device I'll this look um so yeah
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two-piece charging um it is USB type-c
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but nothing at all out of the ordinary
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there and your basic gets started and
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warranty stuff we've seen it all before
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this is what we're here for
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and yeah man right out of the box that
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thing feels and looks
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great so if for nothing else well done
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Acer for uh just making a device that
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looks really good so we got this really
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cool chamford edge around the side so
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you kind of see that nice shiny aluminum
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look we're all aluminum across the
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top and even like the Acer that's that's
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dropped here is this kind of textured
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metal uh which is really neat uh the
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device just looks great great so let's
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look from the side we've kind of got
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this boxy is shape so the the edges come
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to a straight box which is kind of neat
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uh side firing speakers you got your
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volume up and down cuz well we're going
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to use this in tablet mode from time to
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time uh combo headphone microphone Jack
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some LEDs here power Kensington that
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nice sturdy hinge across the back and on
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the other side we have a USB 3.0 we have
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a micro SD card slot we have a fullsize
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HDMI which is very nice and another USB
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type-c so or single USB type-c I'm sorry
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um across the front really nothing here
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save a nice lip for you to get in there
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and open this guy up across the bottom
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we do have some screws but I would um go
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ahead and bet there's not much you're
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going to be able to do inside of there
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so not a big deal no fan ports obviously
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this guy's rocking the mediatech
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processor so uh it is an arm processor
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so no need for fans or anything like
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that all right so now we're going to
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open this guy up we'll attemp the
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one-handed
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lift oh so close it's almost like it
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needs just a little bit more weight in
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the bottom but we're met with a gorgeous
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screen uh the display is uh quite bright
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it's not the brightest thing I've ever
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seen but um it looks great um reflective
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so it's not anti-glare obviously cuz
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it's a touchcreen uh it's just not the
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way that works but you can see off angle
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um things look good so that's
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encouraging
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trackpad feels really good um that might
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be
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metal it's hard to tell uh but it
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doesn't it doesn't have that uh glossy
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plastic feel it doesn't feel like it's
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it's dragging at all it almost actually
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feels and behaves more like a glass
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trackpad I don't think this one is glass
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the entire deck here is all aluminum uh
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so very solid uh very premium feeling
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device again remember this device comes
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in at $400 and so um that is in
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encouraging to say the least all right
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so we're going to run a quick octane
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test and we'll get that started and
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while that's rolling uh we'll talk about
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some of the other uh features of this
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guy so it says it has a wide angle um uh
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webcam we'll test that a little bit um
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in in the full review but we have the
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full 360° hinge we have 32 gigs of
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internal storage 4 gigs of RAM we have
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the mediatech processor so it's arm gets
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lots of battery life it's claiming up to
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12 hours again we'll see in the review
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if that actually holds up or not we're
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close to 10,000 here I have seen where
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this device has gotten 10,000 we'll run
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some more uh benchmarks as time goes on
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but I I know this this thing can eek up
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to right at 10,000 um and so uh we'll
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see what that means we'll see if 10,000
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means um you never have to think about
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performance or we'll see if 10,000 means
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it's almost there but just not quite uh
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because some of that performance
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probably is going to play into what the
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uh some of the upcoming arm uh processor
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the The Rock chips specifically will
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will will behave like um I would say
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it's going to be a little bit faster
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than this transforming into different
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modes so we
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have stand
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mode um you know you would use this if
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you're going to just display something
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or if it's sitting on your desk as a
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secondary um uh device you can go into
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tent mode I personally never use this
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with these devices cuz it does the same
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thing as stand
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mode and then we have full on tablet
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mode which for a device this large we'll
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say one thing at 13.3 in whenever you
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get into
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16x9 I just don't know anyone that's
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going to use this in portrait like this
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um it feels like you got like a plank of
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wood you're going to hit someone with it
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or something uh it's it's kind of odd
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but overall so far very impressed with
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the build with the screen with the
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trackpad keyboard feels really nice so
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uh nothing uh nothing to to really hate
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on there uh um and until I spent some
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time with it and know battery life and
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performance it's kind of hard to comment
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on those the last thing is I going to
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load up a song real
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fast okay so we have up it looks like
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something new by the weekend um I have
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not heard the song yet we'll crank
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it relatively loud for the
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laptop and we'll do the
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test
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here
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andab talking
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hear
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sh so not bad uh pretty good speakers
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actually um rather enjoyable probably be
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pretty good for watching a movie or
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something like that in a pinch again
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laptop speakers are laptop speakers and
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your mileage will vary overall guys uh
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First Impressions I I'm pretty impressed
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with the build and the quality I think
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this could be a pretty good device for a
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lot of people we'll see how it plays out
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for the full review um until then guys
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if you can give a thumbs up and
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subscribe to the channel we'd appreciate
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it and we will spend some time with this
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device get back to you with a full
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review shortly until then guys we'll see
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you
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