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In this video, I finally get my hands on the ASUS C300. As my first Bay Trail Chromebook (and first from ASUS as well) I'm excited to see how it works out!
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hey folks Robbie pay with chrome unboxed
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here coming at you today with an
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unboxing of the Asus C300 Chromebook uh
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there are the the Asus c 200 and 300
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this is the 300 variety with the 13.3 in
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screen the 200 is rocking the 11.6 in
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screen uh this device comes with the bay
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tril processor so this is the first time
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I'll have my hands on a device with B
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Trail um it uh from what I've seen
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online usually fares somewhere between
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the has processor in the uh exos
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octacore in the Samsung uh Chromebook 2
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so we will have uh some side by side
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comparisons for sure uh as I will have
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this device the new Acer I3 uh C720 and
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my trusty hp14 which is rock and the
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Haswell uh Celeron Processor so we'll
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have a side by side by side comparison
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to those coming up in the next week or
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so after I have some time with this
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guy I do plan on using this
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uh if I can as a daily driver for at
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least a few days but for today we're
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just going to open the box
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up that's supposed to happen I guess so
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that's interesting um definitely one of
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the nicer boxed Chromebooks that I've
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seen get this out of the way we'll come
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back to
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that um yeah so
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plug some stuff about being in search of
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incredible um and again not a lot of
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paperwork there never is in these
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because it's a Chromebook so turn it on
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sign in all you mean and here we have
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before us I will say It's relatively
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light uh right out of the
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box very nice looking uh if you've had
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an Asus PC in the last few years you're
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probably used to this kind of brushed
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aluminum esque um try to get in the
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light here so you can kind of see
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it uh obviously it's not brushed
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aluminum it's very plastic sck uh but it
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feels good uh it's got a nice texture
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and it's not picking up fingerprints
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which is kind of cool interestingly they
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have their Chrome sticker covered and a
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piece of plastic cuz I don't want that
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Chrome sticker to get messed up I
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guess around the back uh nothing that's
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the beauty of bay tril no fan vents
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needed so you get these nice solid very
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thin devices uh it's very thin it's very
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light which is very nice Kensington lock
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uh USB 2.0 from the looks of it here uh
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um and USB 3.0 you see super speed there
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on the side full sizee SD card slot
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combo microphone headphone jack and
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fulls sizee HDMI thank you for that and
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charging port speaker grills on the
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bottom so we'll see what kind of volume
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we get out of this nothing across the
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back uh really nice clean uh very Sleek
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design um what I would expect from Asus
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they make uh pretty good looking
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computers we'll see if it passes the one
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finger test I'm not expecting much here
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nope they never seem to apart from the
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pixel it did that uh on the inside
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actually quite nice looking I'm probably
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going to have to take a break uh
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seemingly always have to plug it in make
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sure it turns on but that's not really
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what we're here for anyway is it h nice
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wide trackpad all five fingers can fit
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on it uh nice smooth surface nice quiet
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click so that's very nice uh the inside
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is actually made of the same material as
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the outside so this kind of faux metal
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looking stuff it's got a slight texture
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and it's pretty fingerprint resistance
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uh pretty full siiz keyboard here Keys
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feel nice have a decent travel and the
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keyboard has very minimal Flex so very
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firm we'll give it the oneand test and
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see we're not getting a lot of flex uh
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pretty sturdily built so from the
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outside thing looks very nice
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front-facing camera as always uh it's a
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Chromebook so we're not that surprised
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about it give me a moment I'm going to
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plug it in uh and just see what the
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screen looks like on first blush and
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we'll be done with this uh unbox in for
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now all right guys so got logged in um
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and the device seems just as quick as
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any other Chromebook granted the series
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3 Chromebook even with a 2-year-old Tech
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in it um actually boots up quite quickly
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so um that really doesn't show us
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anything I will say uh for those of you
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who will probably ask me the screen is a
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matte finish which is nice um so it's
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it's reducing glare so that's a great
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thing but we're still looking at a a
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crappy TN panel that's just the way it
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is for right now so eventually hopefully
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we'll start seeing some IPS panels as
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normal things one of the neat features
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of it is in holding it and just getting
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signed in not hearing any fans were um
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the lightness of the device those things
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are nice and and perhaps I don't know
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perhaps it it'll have me coming around a
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little bit as far as Bay tril is
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concerned um we'll see how how the
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performance fares um hoping that in
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day-to-day kind of things that most
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people use these for that ba Trail is
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going to be a a worthwhile chips set um
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for me I'm already pushing the limits of
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the Haswell and I'm looking very forward
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to the Acer I3 to see how that works uh
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I think it I think it's going to blow
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Haswell out of the water but uh we'll
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see how this thing fares uh kind of in
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dayto day but you can see uh with the TN
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panel uh tilt it forward we get
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polarization tilted back we get
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polarization side by side viewing angles
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are not terrible not great and the
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device I can already tell uh this is at
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Max brightness I think yeah and that's
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not that that good either which is a
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shame because the keyboard feels good
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the device feels good it's quiet the
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touchpad is very responsive uh the
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click's very nice feedbacks great on
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everything and yet we're stuck with a
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mediocre Pano again and so hopefully
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people who make Chromebooks are
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listening as people more and more people
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claimer for a nice display it doesn't
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have to be the best thing in the world
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but at least IPS so that we have decent
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viewing angles and some decent
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brightness would be nice so anyway guys
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that's it for this unboxing keep it
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locked to the channel um we'll we'll
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have the full review of this unboxing of
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the C720 with the I3 and a full review
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of it as well and then a head to
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head-to-head competition so you guys can
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see some benchmarks you can see some
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different games running and see if Bay
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Trail may be something that works for
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you or if it's something you need to
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pass on um you can decide those things
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for yourself but uh we'll be bringing
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all that stuff to you shortly uh other
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than that have a great uh a great day
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