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We're excited to get this long-awaited device in the office and get our hands on it. Announced months ago, we're finally seeing the ASUS C301SA hitting shelves, but missing a pretty critical part of its launch announcement.
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hey folks Robbie pay with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with an unboxing of
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the Asus Chromebook
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c31s now this device comes in quite a
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few variations so you're going to see
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quite a few of them around the internet
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but it's been talked about since way
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back in July when it's claim to fame was
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a 64 gig internal storage at the base
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model now today's version that we're
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looking at has 32 gigs of internal
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storage and so that's a little bit
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offputting and it still has that $299
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price tag but while we're sorting some
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of those things out and availability is
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kind of across the board for this device
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we could get our hands on this one so we
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wanted to go ahead and do that and so
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let's move on pass that and get in and
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inbox this guy all right guys so this
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device comes in pretty normal Asus Fair
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here all right guys so first impressions
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the device is really plasticky and we
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were under the impression this was an
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all aluminum device and granted it was
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announced around the same time Acer was
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shipping their all aluminum $299
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Braswell powered device um and maybe in
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part of that we made some assumptions
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there but when we looked at asus's
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website this in fact uh does not have
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aluminum as part of its feature set and
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it is definitely not it has kind of the
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aluminum look plastic up here but it is
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it is all plastic make no mistake about
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that let's look around the sides here we
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have a full size HDMI you got your power
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port there uh USB 3.0 full size SD card
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slot headphone microphone Jack nothing
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around the front no LEDs or anything on
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this side over here we have the uh USB
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3.0 Kensington and just the uh hinge on
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the back around the bottom all the
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screws so that you can pop this thing
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off likely everything's soldered in it's
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em emmc memory um and soldered on RAM so
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there's not much you're going to be able
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to do inside there anyway downward
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firing speak speakers and that's about
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it because we are rocking the uh
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brasswell
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3160 uh processor in here so there's no
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fans
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necessary as I said before this one
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comes with 32 gigs of internal storage
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there is going to be a version uh that's
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going to ship a little bit later that
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will come in at 64 gigs unsure on the
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price with that one hopefully um maybe
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it's a little more solidly built um and
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when we'll still get that kind of 299 uh
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great device from Asus
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opening it up we have the spun aluminum
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look on the inside here too again very
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much plastic and there's no no denying
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that the the device kind of feels a
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little flimsy kind of creaky um so I I'm
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not real excited by that that's kind of
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a shame but we're met with a display
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that looks like it gets relatively
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bright but yeah you can see what the
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white uh very very bright um viewing
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angles and we'll turn it down a little
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bit so we're not blowing pull you out
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viewing angles look really good um so
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there's a positive note here
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um the display is delivering and it's
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anti-glare as well so if you're in a
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coffee shop you're sitting outside it's
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going to help you see this thing
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Outdoors trackpad feels pretty good it's
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it's relatively wide it is plastic so
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it's going to probably pick up
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fingerprints we'll have to see how the
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smoothness holds up glass trackpads
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obviously do this stuff better but uh
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it's nice and wide The Click mechanism
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feels good the travel is good it's not
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wobbly um so good enough for
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sure let's run a quick
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octane yeah keyboard feels really really
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good um this one does come shipped with
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the butterfly springs on the keys and so
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in a in a relatively small amount of
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space you still get a lot of click and
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travel it does feel really good so uh
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thumbs up on the screen so far thumbs up
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on the keyboard and and the trackpads
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okay and so really when we come when it
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comes down to it those are the ones that
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matter and then the performance so if
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those four things are kind of hitting on
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all cylinders you can kind of forgive
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some of the cheaper build um as you as
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you own a device and so um most times
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you're you're dealing with what you're
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looking at on screen how it feels as you
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type and how it feels as you deal with
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input methods on on the
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trackpad all right so we got a score of
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8,000 uh which is a little low for a
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brasswell device uh we will obviously
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run a few more of these for the review
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um for reference the vigin Chromebook
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which has a very similar processor in it
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uh we were able to get uh just over
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9,000 from it and so day-to-day
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performance actually felt pretty good as
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long as you start cresting close to that
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10 11,000 which I know 9,000 is shy of
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that but as we're getting into that
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realm it feels like day-to-day
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performance doesn't become such an issue
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any
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longer we're going to check out these
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speakers real
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quick all right so we have uh we're
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listen through just a little bit of One
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Republic's uh new song here hope we get
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to the
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[Music]
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music and most of the days we were
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searching for ways to get up and get out
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of the town we were raised yeah we were
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done I remember we were sleeping in
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carsch
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all right so not the loudest things in
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the world um a little bit muddy again
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they're laptop speakers so we're not
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expecting a whole lot out of them um but
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the
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uh there's a little bit more mid and low
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range than you normally get they're not
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completely tiny but because of that
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they're a little bit muddy cuz they're
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losing some of the high-end stuff so uh
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you know your mileage is going to vary
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uh for me I'm always hooked to an
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external speaker or earphones so um the
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laptop speakers don't matter that much
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to me it's just nice and a pinch to know
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that hey I've got a decent set of
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speakers here uh these are these are
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okay so so far what looks like a
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relatively okay device um in in all
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manner of speaking and at $299 uh it's
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going to be interesting to review this
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guy cuz uh $300 can get you some pretty
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decent Chromebooks right now so um but
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we'll save the uh the actual opinion for
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the the fullon review until next time
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