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so this is the Acer Chromebook spin 13
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the business-ready corporate Chromebook
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from Acer for 2018 and the device checks
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a lot of boxes it does a lot of stuff
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right and that's not to say it doesn't
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have its downsides but it's a it's a
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great device overall spoiler alert right
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off the top but we want to talk through
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all of those things because it commands
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a pretty high price mainly because Acer
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has targeted this at the business sector
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and so it's even hard to get ahold of
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right now you can usually find the i5
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model but there's multiple models and
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eventually I think we'll start seeing
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these in consumer channels and so we
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want to talk through all the good and
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the bad with this device because
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eventually if you're thinking about
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buying this hopefully you'll have
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multiple choices to make and different
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configurations and you can decide for
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yourself based on what we talked about
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here what a good price is for this
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device because I can tell you the MSRP s
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we're going to talk about here in a few
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minutes are a little bit high on this
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one but it does do a lot of good stuff
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and so we want to get into all of that
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and help you make a purchasing decision
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before we get into all the parts of this
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started today so let's talk about the
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build quality overall all aluminum
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chamfered edges the thing looks really
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really good does it look as good as say
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the pixel book and I don't think so it
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doesn't look like a MacBook it looks
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like an Acer device they're they're not
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cutting edge as far as aesthetics go
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but overall the device looks good and it
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would look great in any kind of
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corporate or business atmosphere and so
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they've done a good job of kind of
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meeting the need of the consumer who's
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gonna use this device I wouldn't say
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it's ugly but it's not exactly a looker
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either it just kind of gets the job done
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it feels good it feels solid without
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weighing a ton and without feeling like
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a tank and as we'll talk about here in a
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minute
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packed a really big screen into a
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overall package that feels nice and
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tight so let's talk about the display
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because it's a major selling factor on
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this device it's bright it's three by
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two so it's kind of got that taller
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aspect ratio like the pixel book and
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overall the colors just look really good
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it's it's it's just pleasing to work
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from and it's really hard to explain
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that if you've not worked from a 3x2
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display kind of like the pixel book or
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the pixel slate or the Microsoft Surface
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or something like that it just gives you
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a little bit of added screen real estate
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so it thirteen and a half inches it
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sounds like it would be any other
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13-inch device but at that aspect ratio
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it really feels like you're working on a
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14 and 14 and a half inch device and at
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20 256 by 1504 resolution I know that's
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weird
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it gives the the device a nice sharp
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display without forcing more pixels than
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you really need in there so we can talk
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about 4k displays and all that kind of
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stuff
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your eyes can't pick that stuff up from
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a few feet away there's never time I
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looked at this display and thought oh
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you know it's it's not quite a quad HD
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or it's not quite a 4k display I can see
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pixels I couldn't see any of the pixels
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on it it looks sharp it looked gorgeous
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and that's less stuff for the processor
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to have to deal with whenever it's
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rendering anything on the page so well
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done Acer this this display is an
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absolute knockout moving on to input
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methods this is a place where the device
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falls down a little bit for me the pixel
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book again as I've always said it's kind
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of my gold standard I love the travel it
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has and the clicking of the keys and
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this device actually has the keys feel
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like they have more travel than the
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pixel book for instance that's not a
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huge selling point for me I don't want
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them to be super shallow but I don't
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need a ton of travel on a keyboard I
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just like for there to be a clicky
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response so that I know that your
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fingers know whenever you've hit the key
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this one can get a little bit mushy from
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time to time and so it wasn't terrible
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it just isn't great either but the keys
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are backlit so that is a nice plus
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especially when you're paying top dollar
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for a Chromebook moving on to the
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trackpad it is Gorilla Glass so that's
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that's great any device I think at this
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point that is four or five hundred
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dollars and up should have a glass
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trackpad they just work better than
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plastic or metal ones but my issue with
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this trackpad is it's actually a little
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bit shallow so a lot of times our track
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pads are getting more and more square so
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they're actually getting taller the way
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we
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use them and so your habits just kind of
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develop around the different dimensions
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of trackpads and this one tends to be a
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little bit shallow for me the width is
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fine it's just shallow and so Chrome OS
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does a good job of palm rejection but
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sometimes on this device it feels like
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it's doing too bit of a job there was a
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lot of times I was going to either move
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the mouse or try to click in an area
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where it was trying to reject my palm
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and so a lot of Miss clicks and a lot of
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issue just moving the mouse around the
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screen over the course of time I started
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getting used to it it's it's habitual
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stuff and so you'll you'll evolve around
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that eventually if you use this it's
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just something you need to know if you
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go out and purchase this device one
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other thing this one has a third input
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method and it's another selling point of
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the devices there's a garage stylus on
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this one and so you can grab the stylus
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right out from underneath pull it out
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and use it whenever you need it
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stow it away it doesn't need batteries
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it's EMR and so it's gonna work really
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well artists are gonna like it more and
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in inks as well as any other EMR stylus
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on a Chromebook inks we've talked about
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it a million times it seems like the pen
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behaves exactly like you would think
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4000 plus levels of pressure it does a
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really good job but one thing that this
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one does better than other garage stylus
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is that it's larger it actually is big
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enough to fit in entirely in your hand
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like a pen and so instead of being like
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this little toothpick that you're trying
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to write with it can sit kind of more
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naturally in your hand as you write on
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around the sides of the device we're
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coming up on a port selection that's
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pretty normal in 2018 so a USBC on
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either side and then one USB a port on
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the left side of the device alongside an
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SD card slot and headphone microphone
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jack and I've said this before and I'll
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say it again this is my favorite layout
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of ports mainly because with the USB C
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on either side you have the ability to
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charge and/or dock the device and either
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side whichever one is easier for you to
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use and then on those times where you
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just you need a dongle to move something
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over to a more legacy device or an SD
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card reader or something like that you
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have it there in the event that you
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don't have a dongle to or an adapter for
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it so internally this device actually
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checks a lot of boxes as well and comes
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in multiple configurations the one that
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we have been testing is the core i5
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eight gigs of ram 128 gigs of internal
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storage there's one level above that
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with 16 gigs of ram same storage same
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processor and then there are two i3
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models one with four gigs
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and one with eight both of them with 64
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gigs of internal storage and so if
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you're kind of thinking oh well which
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one should I go which one should I think
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about getting right now the only one you
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can really get a hold of is this one so
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the i58 gig hundred twenty eight gigs of
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internal storage what I would think and
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what I would tell you that if you're
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watching this a few months from now and
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availability has started to expand if
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you can get your hands on the core i3
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with eight gigs of RAM I think that's
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gonna be the sweet spot because the core
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i3 from what we can tell benchmarking
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and regular use is just as fast as the
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core i5 at least in Chromebooks anyway I
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don't know if it's just Chrome OS
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doesn't really take advantage of what
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the hi-5 offers or what but there's
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really not much sense in spending any
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money on it unless it comes with the
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particular upgrades and storage and RAM
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that you're looking for so that's the
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one I would shoot for however that one
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is still eight hundred dollars and so
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that's where we have to start talking
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about price versus what you're getting
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in this device and we're gonna get to
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that as we wrap up this video but I can
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tell you obviously you probably know
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this with these kind of internals this
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thing breezes through anything and
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especially with a slightly less pixel
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dense display than some of the other
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high-res Chromebooks I mean it just
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breezes along it doesn't run into a lot
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of the issues some of the other ones run
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into one thing I can tell you that might
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be off-putting for some people you'll
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notice it has fan ports in it it does
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have a fan it's it's the U series
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processor which they're way more
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powerful but they do need a fan from
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time to time and every once in a while I
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would hear it kick on usually you're not
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going to hear it it's not gonna be a big
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deal but when they do kick on they're
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slightly noticeable they're not terribly
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loud but they are they're so taking all
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this stuff that we've said about this
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device it sounds obviously like acer has
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done a lot right and they have this is a
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great device and I've really really
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enjoyed using it it really comes down to
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price at this point and I don't know
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that acer is gonna come off that price
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too much because their marketing to the
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business crowd their marketing to
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corporate and I don't know that they're
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really trying to compete with the HP s
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and the Lenovo's and the Dells that
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we're seeing at five and six hundred
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dollars that have similar spec layouts
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and similar good points and bad points
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and so because of that you're gonna have
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to kind of keep your eye on stuff and
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look around and hopefully you know go to
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Chrome and voxcom and if we see a deal
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on it we'll let you know but the minute
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you see if
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becomes available to consumers the core
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i3 8gig version of this device for a few
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hundred bucks off at that point I would
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absolutely say go and get it it would it
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would be a great device at a great price
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but some of you may be looking at this
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and going hey you know 900 bucks is that
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sounds great I'll pay that for the the
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one that you're testing right there the
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way that this one is better than some of
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the other devices in that price range is
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you get that larger screen there's no
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other device with the 3 by 2 screen at
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this size and it's just been a joy to
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use and I really like having the stylus
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on me at all times because and then when
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I think that I need to take a note or
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pull something I can just yank the yank
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that pin out and use it or I don't get
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that on something like the pixel book so
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am i telling you to go buy it maybe
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maybe not and I hate to be that
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indecisive I just think that at some
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point we're gonna see some sales on this
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and it'll be much easier to say at that
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point if you're watching this video and
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you can get it for a little bit cheaper
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absolutely go get this Acer's done a
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good job of putting it really really
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good device together it's just a little
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bit steep at this point but guys that's
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