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I finally get my hands on the highly-anticipated ASUS Chromebook Flip.
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hey folks Robbie pay here with chrome
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unbox coming at you today with an
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unboxing of the Asus Chromebook Flip or
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the
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c100 uh this one has been much talked
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about much anticipated uh since back at
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uh was it
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CES um I'm not I actually can't remember
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when it was that this thing was broken
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uh and Asus kind of pulled the wrappers
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off of it and said hey look this is what
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we're going to make uh everybody's been
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kind of anticipating this device and so
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it's starting to be uh starting to hit
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the channels uh so you can get it uh the
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2 gig version which is this one here is
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available through Amazon there's a
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handful of retailers that are seeing the
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4 Gig come in
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um but I've got one of those as well on
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order from
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CDW um I'm going to be able to at least
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kind of look at the difference between
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the two um and I talked to them and it
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looks like uh first or second week of
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July is when those are going to hit so I
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wanted to go ahead and get my hands on
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this one uh cuz the hardware obviously
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isn't going to change so uh we have the
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c
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100p um see if we can get Focus there
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there we
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go uh we got the rock chip same thing
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it's in the Asus uh c201 that I've
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reviewed
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previously uh two USB 2.0 um and all the
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normal goodies inside but what sets this
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guy apart as most of you know who are
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watching this is the form factor and the
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build
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materials um and the way that this guy's
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going to be made I really like how Asus
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is doing this uh kind of thing with the
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box it's very cool only let you open it
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so far um again for a cardboard box it's
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pretty cool
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we know this is the star of the show I'm
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going to set him to the side for just a
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second just see what's in the box
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warranty information you know whatever
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again it's a chrome
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box or a Chromebook uh I kind of I wish
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that Asus would have one that folded in
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cuz it's a really small plug it'd be
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very nice uh that kind of adds a lot of
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width seemingly unnecessarily and we've
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got that same connector it's almost like
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the pseudo USB um but it's a little
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blockier um anyway uh it's a proprietary
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charger
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unfortunately would have been cool to
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see USB type-c on this bad boy but at
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this time frame and this price range
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who's complaining right so it's 250 for
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the 2 gig
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version set that back there and pull
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this guy out of bit its
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cloth and wow yeah that feels great
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aluminum top and bottom very nice nice
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little chain Fort Edge if you can see
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that on camera or
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not little shininess around its edges
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hinge back
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here we take a tour around we got the
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speakers on the
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bottom some screws you can open up doubt
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there's much you're going to be able to
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do with it you got that uh um
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proprietary power volume up and down and
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power here cuz obviously probably going
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to be using this as a tablet a lot
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nothing across the front edge and then
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we've got two USB 2.0 micro us B uh
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micro HDMI as well combo headphone
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microphone Jack and again nothing across
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the b b back uh and top is pretty clean
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um just nice aluminum cool
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feel let's set this guy
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down very striking uh first appearance
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and I'm probably going to plug it in to
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get some power likely
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okay we'll do that in just a second kind
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of take it to around the inside of the
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device as well again aluminum here
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trackpad hard to tell if that's plastic
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or metal uh feels good feels very
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similar to the c201 but for a device
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this small nice uh nice spacing
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there um very thin as you can see from
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the side just as thick as the USB port
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basically and even thinner up top uh and
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that nice little silver lining I didn't
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notice that before just a little
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chamford Edge there just adds a real
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Touch of Class to it um keys are pretty
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good travels uh pretty decent relatively
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clicky uh not as satisfying feeling as a
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c201 I've been really happy with that
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keyboard but doesn't feel bad at all no
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give whatsoever it's aluminum so that
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helps a ton there's no given the
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keyboard um we have a glass panel here
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and
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and looks like probably a cut out for a
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microphone I don't if you can see that
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or
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not yeah just barely there that looks
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like probably a microphone I don't see
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any other front-facing
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one then these little rubber buttons
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here I guess they're just there for
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looks uh webcam up top and as you can
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see this guy is crazy thin crazy thin
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and we'll Fold It on Back get the feel
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from a tablet perspective Weight Wise
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It's very good um so you know holding
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this it's going to be a little heavier
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than holding a u an iPad or something
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like that but all said I mean it's very
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thin uh very realistic that you could
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use this as a tablet this way and
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obviously that's what they wanted out of
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it so ideally you could then use it in a
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kind of a tent mode like
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so um you can also do kind of a
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presentation mode like
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this bend that thing way back uh Hing is
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hinge is pretty sturdy um so you can see
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if as it's like this giving it some
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really good Taps it's getting a little
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bit of wobble but that's nothing at all
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to be concerned about flip it closed and
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it is Tiny and Sleek so we're going to
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cut away real quick plug this guy in and
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we'll be right back all right we are
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back and started up I'm going to crank
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the brightness up a little bit on this
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guy actually I'm going to turn it back
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off just so you can see how quickly it
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boots interestingly again because it's
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mainly a tablet power is located over
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here on the side um and then the you
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still get a lock key up here so if you
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just want to lock your desktop I would
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assume by closing it you're going to get
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the same effect let me get it off camera
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here sign in you saw there uh just as
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quick as anything else bet boy loads up
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just
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fine I want to say it's not the
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brightest screen in the world uh it full
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it full ticks it's it's okay um not too
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bad now granted you got to give it cut a
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little bit of slack it's in the process
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of installing all my extensions and all
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that kind of stuff right now um track
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pad's pretty good um nice and clicky uh
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feels good screen looks uh looks looks
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pretty sharp we're going to bend it back
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into tablet mode here um
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see if we can get
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focused you can see text looks
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good let's see if it'll focus there a
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little too
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close come
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on yeah so you can see text is perfectly
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readable we're dealing with a 1280 by
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800 panel here so 16 by10 it's a little
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taller than your normal 16x9 resolutions
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um so some interesting things uh that I
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haven't seen anybody cover and I knew
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we're kind of part of it come on Focus
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here all right when you're in tablet
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mode obviously it's got accelerometer so
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it knows um knows how to how to orient
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itself but apps actually open in full
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screen mode now so if we open up Gmail
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for instance it's going to open up full
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screen and I'll open up the files app as
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well and so everything opens initi sorry
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about that everything opens full screen
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and so they actually put the task
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switcher right down here um if you're
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not using that mean you're missing out
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uh cuz it's really awesome uh the
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ability to jump between tasks um you can
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swipe up three fingers on the trackpad
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normally um and so that allows you to
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kind of switch between uh between tasks
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up here everything else is still handled
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like the desktop so I mean to close out
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of something you're still going to hit
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your X at the top um so those things are
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still handled the same and again some of
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the performance here uh give it uh give
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it a little bit of slack we are uh it's
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it's doing some stuff in the background
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getting things installed and all that
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stuff so uh keep that in mind um the
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full review obviously see here will come
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all my extensions um the full review
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will U have a better idea and if it
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performs as I expected to just like the
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c201 uh there's really nothing to fear
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here as far as performance
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goes um there was something else
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interesting I was going to say about
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it um obviously you can swipe um swipe
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up from the bottom to get your taskar
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there and gone I believe if you get a
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hold of it yeah you can just swipe it
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down um and I've read that pinch zooming
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is really good so
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let's let's just go to
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uh on on screen keyboard oh that's what
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I was going to say on screen keyboard's
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very responsive and it's kind of cool
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like when I was going to pass type in my
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password it actually put the number keys
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right up there at the top top um in that
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in that grayish area there which is
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really cool um it didn't take up a huge
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chunk of the of the screen up there and
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this is awkward I've never done a review
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while holding the device in my hand uh
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but I kind of want want you to get that
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uh tablet feel out of
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it so we're struggling through a little
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bit of stuff right now again it's it's
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still going through some of the setup
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stuff in the
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background um but here we got pinch to
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zoom works really well and again certain
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sites rendered in desktop menus and
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things like that may not be ready for it
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but but the pinch Zoom is really really
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responsive which is really nice uh
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especially if you're going say like this
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and going to
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read
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um there's an interesting article I
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wanted to read so here's something
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that's a little less image heavy um so I
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can scroll through this no big deal I
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play golf enjoy Golf and this uh this uh
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article got my attention the death of
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golf and they're making the the
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statement that uh the game of golf is
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dying and uh it may be so we're reading
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here so we want to zoom in not sure what
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a double tap does okay see long
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press and you get your Android is uh
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selection bars uh so all in all I mean
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it's doing a pretty decent job for
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something that most people say is no
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good at at uh
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um at touch interface all this stuff's
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good I'm sure they've been working on
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the stuff with the pixel quite a bit so
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uh there's that there um so yeah overall
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already I'm quite impressed and it jumps
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back into the desktop mode no problem
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it's not like Windows 8 where there's
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stuff popping up on the screen oh you've
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switched to tablet mode or you've
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switched to this mode it just kind of
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does it um without asking I'm curious
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what the at what angle um
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it switches back and we'll know by that
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little multitasking in the bottom right
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corner so right about there so just past
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180 open it switches back to your uh
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keyboard
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orientation so guys that's it for right
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now uh hit me up with questions I still
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got to do my
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Asus c201 review so I'm probably going
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to be doing that actually today um and
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I've got some questions in the unboxing
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that I'm going to answer at the end of
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the review and I'll start doing that as
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a normal thing so hit me up in the
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questions you have about this device um
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and as I'm using it uh I'm going back to
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Chrome box and then a uh or Chrome yeah
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Chrome box for the desktop and then kind
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of letting this be my mobile uh
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companion all over the place so we'll
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see how that works out um and over the
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next few weeks hopefully I'm going to
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end up keeping this guy around probably
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will opt for switching out with the 4
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Gig version might give this into my
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daughter or something like that so we'll
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see uh how that all pans out it'll be
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interesting to see how uh Chrome is
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doing I haven't used a 2 gig device in
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some time so it'll be interesting to see
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how it's doing with that anyway till
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