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This year, Acer released a couple new Chromebooks at their NEXT@Acer press conference and one in particular was lent to us to get a bit of hands-on time with in lead-up to the event. The new version of the Acer Spin 13 is refinement of the older version in nearly every way and so far, my impressions are extremely good.
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hey guys we are here live from acer's
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global press
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oh no we're not just kidding acer
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obviously isn't having an in-person
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press event but the press event is going
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on right now
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and they were nice enough to send us
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this the new spin 13 chromebook
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and we've had a few days to take a look
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at it and get our hands on it and we
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want to give you our initial impressions
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so we're going to take this whole thing
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as if we're at the event
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because honestly we miss going to new
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york and we miss being a part of these
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things so
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acer again sent this over to us kind of
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as if
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you know to look at as if we were at the
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event so outside we have a fully
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aluminum chassis here again this is the
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spin
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13 so we're talking about a 13 inch
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device 13.5 inches specifically
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and this is a new version of what they
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had last year
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uh in the spin 13 minus a couple things
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adding a couple things we're going to
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kind of go through that but around the
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sides here
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we have a micro sd card slot headphone
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microphone jack
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usb type a super speed there so it's a
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3.0 port
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and then the usb type c port on the
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other side
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and then flip it around and surprise
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surprise we get a full
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hdmi slot which is honestly pretty rare
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these days
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in any chromebook so it's kind of nice
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to see that there no dongles required to
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get out to an extended display
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another usb type-c and then your power
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and volume rocker there on the side
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you'll also notice fan ports here and
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here
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again this is an all-aluminum chassis uh
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acer tells us this is
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mil-spec rated so it's rated for drops
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and
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corrosion and all that kind of stuff so
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that's that's a nice touch and a device
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that does not look
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mil-spec rated uh so that's pretty cool
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and then you have your speaker jacks
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here as well this is obviously it's a
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spin device so we've got the 360 degree
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hinge here so you can open this thing up
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and then flip it all the way over into
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all the modes that you're accustomed to
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with you know convertible devices and
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this year acer
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has chosen to kind of go with this scoop
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here uh
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and i like this this is kind of a call
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back to
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some of the older acer devices and it
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just gives the thing a
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smoother just better constructed feel it
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just looks thinner
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technically when it's sitting on a desk
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it looks a little bit thinner than it
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really is
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and overall the construction compared to
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last year's version
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of the spin 13 just feels a lot more
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cohesive the whole thing feels like it's
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put together with a lot more thought
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the hinges feel really good when you
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open it you can actually almost get a
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one finger lift here
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which is nice and then the way the hinge
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actually goes down at the bottom
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gives you kind of that ergonomic lift a
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little bit with the keyboard so
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that again is just a really nice touch
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once we open the device up again we're
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met with a 13.5 inch
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3x2 display i honestly don't remember
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off the top of my head the resolution
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it's a real oddball resolution
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it's approaching uh 1440p
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so it's approaching the quad hd
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resolution here so think uh pixelbook
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uh think the pixel slate that kind of
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resolution
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but you're getting a 13.5 inch screen
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and one thing that struck me with this
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particular display
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when i looked at it i worked from it for
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a couple days and i realized why i like
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it so much
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is that vertically it almost is the same
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vertical space
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as a 15.6 inch 16 by 9 panel
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obviously you're losing some space over
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here on the sides but for most things on
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the web
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the side is kind of throwaway space so
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when you're talking about web browsing
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and web apps and that kind of stuff
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you almost feel like you're working on a
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15.6 inch display
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and it's a 13.5 inch device and so the
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entire thing doesn't feel that much
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bigger than like a 13 inch device so
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it's a it's very compact for the screen
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real estate you're getting here
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and then additionally it's high-res and
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it's very very bright we have it turned
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down quite a bit so that it doesn't blow
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out the camera but we were measuring
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this thing somewhere around like 450
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nits in brightness so
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it's crazy bright the screen is an
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absolute win here
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uh the keyboard feels really nice it is
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backlit as well and then down below that
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you get a glass track pad
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and they fixed this from last year last
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year there was a huge space down here of
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metal
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beneath the track pad and i constantly
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would click or attempt to click
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on the actual frame of the device
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instead of hitting the track pad and
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this year they brought that track pad
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down it's
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huge it's all glass again this is
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gorilla glass on the screen gorilla
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glass on
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the track pad as well and the entire
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thing just feels like it's just
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more thoughtfully put together than it
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was last year the one that acer sent us
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to test is the core i5 model but there
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are quite a few models actually that are
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going to be available going all the way
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down from a pentium
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all the way up to a core i7 all the 10th
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gen core eye chips
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uh from intel and we're going to get
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anything from 4 gigs all the way up to
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16 gigs of
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ram and then additionally 64 gigs to 256
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gigs
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of nvme storage the lower end models
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will come with emmc
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storage this device here has the nvme
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storage
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and so far i can tell you this thing
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feels great
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it looks great on the table and
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additionally what acer is telling us is
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it's going to start
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this model so the core i5 8 gig of ram
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128 gigs of storage
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is going to start at 629 dollars so
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compared to the
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the old spin 13 that came out and was
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priced 900 to a thousand dollars
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this is a very aggressive price point
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from acer and for the machine that
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you're getting here
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the workspace you're getting from the
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screen the the vibrancy and the
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brightness of the screen the backlit
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keys the glass track pad the all
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aluminum build the 360 degree hinge
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the 13.5 inch measure which is unique in
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the chromebook space
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there's a ton here oh and it's also usi
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stylus compatible as well
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there is a ton here for 630 dollars and
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i've
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enjoyed the few days that i've gotten to
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spend with this obviously
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we're going to get a full-blown unit
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here in the office in the next week or
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so to do a full review on this is not
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that
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but the initial impressions are honestly
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really
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impressive for this device i think acer
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has put together a winner here
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they're going to offer it in a consumer
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model and in an enterprise model that
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will come with a chrome enterprise
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license but this will be available
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and distributed in all the normal
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consumer spaces as well so you're not
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going to have to kind of go through
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hoops like you did with the
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old spin 13 they're going to offer it at
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places like best buy and all that kind
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of stuff
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along with the enterprise version as
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well so it's going to be nice to be able
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to see this thing arrive sometime in
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july is what acer is telling us
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it's a great looking device again i want
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to hold off on saying anything more than
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that until we have really more time to
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review this thing
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but so far this thing looks like a
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killer chromebook but guys that's it for
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