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hey folks Robbie Payne here with Carolyn
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box coming at you today with a review of
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the Asus C 201 now I will say if some of
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you have watched the unboxing and
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hands-on video of this I think I slipped
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maybe twice in that video for some
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reason and said Acer c720 maybe because
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I reviewed so many of those things we've
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had one in our house for who knows how
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long now for some reason I just couldn't
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get that out of my mind so if I do slip
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up and say that and I miss it I'm so
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sorry I really am referring to the Asus
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C 201 cool background just changed its
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my daughter and my son real quick around
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the hardware give you a tour pretty
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small
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light thin I'm going to go through some
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of the things that we talked about in
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the unboxing Kensington lock micro SD
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card slot I will show you something real
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quick had a question whether or not all
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I moved it sorry
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whether or not the SD card would fit
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flush it does it snaps actually clicks
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right in there and fits completely flush
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so if you have a micro SD card it will
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fit no issues there micro HDMI you can
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get a micro HDMI to full size female
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HDMI adapter so that you can use that it
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fits in there nice and snug I've used
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some of these in the past that have been
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kind of wobbly it is very good combo
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headphone microphone jack nothing across
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the front and two USB 2.0 ports there
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and depending on your use case that may
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be a bummer for you hopefully it's not a
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end game kind of thing that you can't
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actually use the device because of that
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everything still works all your
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peripherals so it would still work there
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it's not going to get the ultra-fast
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transfer speeds and you're not going to
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get the faster charging nothing across
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the back save this hinge and it's a good
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looking device you see very clearly on
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the video here picks up fingerprints
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like a beast just part of it it's kind
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of cheap plastic but it doesn't
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feel cheap in it it's a decent build it
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really is I've enjoyed my time using
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this machine across the bottom you can
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see the two speaker ports there and
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that's about it kind of rounds out the
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outside of the device here so we're
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going to open this guy back up and one
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thing you're going to notice real quick
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the first time you lay eyes on this
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thing is that when you're on angle with
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this display let me sign in real quick
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and it will actually change the
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background of something with some color
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to it so we can see
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in one of these backgrounds here that's
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nice and colorful
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that one's pretty
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and so means see let's get it right on
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angle here for you colors pop the images
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look sharp it's not anti-glare display
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so it's actually glossy and kind of see
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some reflections there which doesn't
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bother me some people really like
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antique like screens this is not one of
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them but it gives it this really crisp
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really sharp look as long as you're on
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angle and let me see if I couldn't find
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your spot okay so so take a look right
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up in here okay you see the proper kind
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of contrast as soon as we bend it back
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here you're getting that kind of
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negative effect going on obviously that
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happens as we tilt it back you see how
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the dark image is kind of negative
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themselves out see when we go forward
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they go the opposite direction we get
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really light blown out images the the
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viewing angle on this thing is so narrow
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then it almost is impossible to get the
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screen tilted in such a way where you
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don't get any polarization from top to
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bottom which is kind of a bummer
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it's not a huge deal but don't expect to
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go sharing your screen with a bunch of
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people at a party or something like that
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and it'd be a good experience because
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it's really difficult you can already
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see polarizing polarizing we're kind of
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on there but it's still not consistent
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across and so there's a little bummer
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but again let's consider some things
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we're paying we're talking about paying
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160 dollars for a laptop here granite
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mines 189 I think this one is with 4
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gigs of RAM and honestly with the rock
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chip processor for those of you again
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here watch the unbox the unboxing sorry
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about that you know it comes rocking the
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the rock chip processor that the ACS
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Chromebook flip also has the Hisense
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Chromebook at Walmart and the higher
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higher one that is exclusively at Amazon
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they're all in that 150 160 range for 2
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px 16 gigs of internal storage 2 gigs of
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RAM setup and it's at rock Schiff 3820
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excuse me there
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so keeping the idea that we're in that
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price range this is a really a steal of
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a device the the keyboard has great
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travel it's very very good very clicky
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very well spaced barely any give
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whatsoever there so it feels really firm
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none of this is metal it's all plastic
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but I do appreciate the matte edges
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around the sides that don't pick up
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fingerprints which is very cool the
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device didn't have any problem pairing
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connecting with things Bluetooth Wi-Fi
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any of those types of things it actually
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loads things up relatively quickly I
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mean we're going to go I use this all
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the time when we go to the verge and I
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don't have any adblock things going on
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here I'm using just loading it up as it
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is and so you're talking about like tons
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of ads tons of pictures tons of stuff
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going on and we'll let it get loaded it
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completely here before I move on it does
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take a minute to load in the entire site
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so we're proved on slowed again okay
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pretty close and you can see once we get
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things loaded in scrolling is actually
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pretty decent again we're talking about
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a bargain-basement the whole laptop here
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this is as cheap as it gets I mean this
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is just about disposable one hundred and
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fifty hundred sixty dollars and so very
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impressed with with its performance
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given that I'm not going to run another
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octane here you know it's it's scoring
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close to seven thousand which on paper
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puts it right around the other arm
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Chromebooks like Samsung's had even the
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series three gets almost that much but
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let me tell you performance it's really
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a non-issue it's it's not close to the
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old arm Chromebooks and maybe that's the
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quad-core thing happening it is a 30 era
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I'm sorry it's not hardcore
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yes it is quad-core but it's 32-bit and
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64-bit so I don't know if that has
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something to do with it
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I'll show you I've got
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I do have a boon to 1404 with xfce
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running on here and I have ze extension
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our target and so it's running in a
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window and no issues doing so some
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Inkscape which is a decently heavy
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graphics editing program no problem
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there I can't upgrade to the latest
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version of xscape because they have not
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compiled that for an ARM chip just yet
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so but the older version runs just fine
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on it you can see there's a little bit
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of lag but I'll be honest if you even on
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my eye three chromebox there's a little
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bit of lag with Inkscape when it loads
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up so let me see if I have any
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if I have any images stored here
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that's a nice huge image right there so
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it's a 10 10 Meg image we'll see how it
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handles that
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Granta this is pushing the limits of
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what you would really want to be doing
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on this for me this is on the couch kind
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of machine and do some work on it if I'm
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in a pinch but you see it actually pull
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it up once I got it loaded in moves it
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around just fine so I mean there's so
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there's a lot to be said about how well
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this thing performs given what you're
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talking again we're talking about an ARM
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processor we're talking about $160 price
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range so I've been very very impressed
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with this device you can see the battery
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right now is at 20% shown in an hour and
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33 minutes left
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I think they list this thing at 12 to 13
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hours of battery I wasn't getting quite
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that but it's easily getting 9 to 10
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hours of use and because the display is
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not great it's even right now got it
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just about cranked full make sure it
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didn't blow anything out there not the
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brightest display in the world again you
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got to cut corners in places whenever
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you're talking about selling a
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Chromebook for $160 and so I think they
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did so with the display probably the
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speakers we talked about this in the
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unboxing speakers are decently loud they
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got some volume to them they're on the
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underside of the laptop subs in your lap
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it gets muffled that's just kind of way
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it is
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remember I've been happy like I took
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this thing home on a Friday I didn't
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take a charger with me just took it home
9:40
used it around the house did a little
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bit of work with it and it is Tuesday
9:49
now and we're at 20% so it's done it's
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done pretty good fourth battery goes
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you're not going to be upset there I
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don't believe it all hear it skinny it's
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pretty loud I mean it's I have to raise
10:02
my voice pretty high to get over it
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so no bottom end which is not surprising
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it's a Chromebook or it's a laptop any
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laptop even the original pixel was
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decent but it still wasn't great and
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again I look at you know we're not
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getting a bunch of checkerboarding you
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know those images don't load in on
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anything it's just the way web browsers
10:26
work and so again I've been really
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really really pleasantly surprised
10:30
trackpad is really good nice and smooth
10:32
doesn't pick up a lot of junk
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fingerprints and moves along just fine I
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even took a day almost entire day and
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worked from this device by itself I
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hooked it into a secondary display so it
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was pushing a 1080p monitor its own
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monitor as the secondary and I did
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everything I normally do with work so I
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mean you're talking 1012 tabs open music
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player you know Inkscape running in
10:55
ubuntu thor crouton multiple tabs open
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google hangouts open dummy just lots of
11:03
stuff going on it's just the you know
11:05
the nature of the beast and I work but I
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wanted to do that and force myself to to
11:09
see what it would do it hung with it
11:11
there were a couple of times my tabs
11:13
crashed on me but I think that was more
11:16
due to RAM than anything else and
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honestly as long as I'm just kind of
11:20
managing that
11:20
leaving a bunch of crap open I really
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had no problems with it and that's
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saying a lot for $160 laptop to say that
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it can hang with me working that's
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that's really impressive so overall I
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have to say if you're on the fence or
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you're thinking about buying one of
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these $150 Rockchip Chromebooks this is
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the one especially if you're wanting to
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stay in that price range this is the one
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to get I haven't even touched the the
11:45
high sense of higher one but I don't
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know that I have to I've looked at some
11:50
reviews online about them and most of
11:53
review say hey it feels pretty cheap but
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you know it's 150 bucks well this one
11:57
doesn't really feel that cheap this one
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actually feels better than most of a
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sirs devices any of them including the
12:04
c910 the the Chromebook 11 all of them I
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really have to hand it to Asus they
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they've been a really good job with
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taking the minimal build elements they
12:16
can work with and making something
12:18
really nice really a pleasure to use
12:20
I've really enjoyed it again apart from
12:22
the narrow viewing angles of the screen
12:24
I don't have much to nag on this device
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we either be selling it or handing this
12:32
off to someone else could stay in the
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house I'm not sure but I won't be using
12:36
it probably as much anymore because this
12:38
guy's come along the Asus Chromebook
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flip just so you guys can see it the
12:44
size of these guys together so it's that
12:48
and then from the front so most of you
12:52
know the flip is pretty darn thin and
12:55
the SI 201 doesn't give up too much in
12:58
that way so we'll be talking more about
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the flip later so I'm not going to let
13:04
it kind of steal a show here just
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wanting to show you how thin and light
13:07
and and really well-built this guy is if
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you're wanting to stay in that hundred
13:12
fifty dollar category of Chromebook this
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is well worth the extra ten fifteen
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bucks over the other brands and it is
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well made it gives definitely give this
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guy a thumbs up hope if you do buy it
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you enjoy it as much as I have
13:26
other than that guys hope you enjoyed
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the review if you haven't checked out
13:29
the unboxing there's some other things I
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did in that as well check that one out
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keep it locked here until next time
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we'll see you later
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