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When you review devices, being picky is part of the job. I tend to look for the best parts of any Chromebook, but that way of looking at things isn't always the most helpful for prospective buyers. While I don't see the need to incessantly bash devices just for kicks and giggles, I do see great value in taking the time to put each and every Chromebook under a microscope to pick out all the potential issues future users may run into.
This is usually a pretty simple job, honestly. It is normally pretty easy to find issues with gadgets, but with the ASUS C434, finding fault was more of a task than it usually is. And, for someone in the market for a Chromebook under $600, that is really good news. So, let's get into what makes this latest offering from ASUS one of my favorite Chromebooks on the market.
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as a reviewer it's my job to be critical
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and nitpicky of chromebooks
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with the asus chromebook flip c434 that
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i've been reviewing for the past week
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however
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i've been having a hard time finding
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those nitpicks
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it's a great device and it does a lot of
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things really really well is it perfect
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not quite let's talk about it
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today so let's get started talking about
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what makes this such a great chromebook
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we'll start with build quality like we
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always do
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and asus has done a fantastic job here
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you got these nice chamfered edges all
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around the the outside of the body and
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around the track pad you've got these
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nice chromed out hinges but more than
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anything else you've got this aluminum
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that feels nice and sturdy
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it does not pick up fingerprints
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basically at all i literally just wiped
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it off for the first time on the outer
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part of it before we did this review and
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didn't really have to clean it up too
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much but it just looks great on a desk
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it feels great in your hand because of
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the narrow bezels the entire body has
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been brought down for what a normal 14
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inch device would look like down to more
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closely resembling a 13 inch chromebook
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it's light at just three pounds and only
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15 16 millimeters in thickness i mean it
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just is super portable it's super well
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put together it just feels premium on
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every front and asus absolutely killed
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it with the build quality here so let's
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talk about that screen
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the screen itself isn't that amazing
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it's a great screen it's about 300 nits
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of brightness it's got nice punchy
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colors great wide viewing angles 14
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inches diagonal
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16 by nine so it's not doing anything
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out of the ordinary it's full hd it's a
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1920 by 1080.
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those things are pretty stock and you
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know kind of becoming normalized across
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chrome os in the last i don't know six
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months or so we've seen a lot of devices
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with really good 14 inch full hd
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displays it's not really the display
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panel itself that really is doing a lot
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of justice for this device it's the
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small bezels they put around it and
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because of those tiny little bezels when
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you open this thing up on the desk
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there's just something that draws your
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eyes to it and i know bezels don't
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really matter in the grand scheme of
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things it's not like it makes it more
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productive or anything it just makes it
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nicer to look at and because of those
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small bezels just like i said in the
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build section before this
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it's smaller it literally is physically
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a smaller device than most 14 inch
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devices and so it just feels great it
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looks great and
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normally i wouldn't talk about bezels
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being that big of a deal on a device but
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they changed the way that you perceive
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this one and so the entire thing feels
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smaller and lighter because of it and
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it's more attractive it makes you just
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want to use it more moving down from
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that screen and getting into the
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keyboard and trackpad bits this is
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probably the
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one of the only areas i really have
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anything bad to say about this device
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and it's not even that bad it's just
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kind of mediocre the keyboard feels
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great there's plenty of travel on the
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keys they're backlit and they're kind of
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silvery gray in color now i've had some
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questions asking if they're aluminum
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they're not aluminum keys they're
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plastic but the the overall feel of them
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the travel is really good i wish for a
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little bit more click in it but overall
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after using it for about a day i got
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really used to it and was able to type
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really fast on this and it was
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comfortable and i enjoyed the typing
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experience in general the track pad is
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mediocre at best it picks up oils a
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little bit and it just doesn't feel as
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substantial as the rest of the device i
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really feel like they should have put a
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nice glass track pad to go with the
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aesthetic of the rest of this device
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they did not do that it is plastic
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but it's serviceable it's good the click
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mechanism feels good it just kind of
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feels a little thin and just not quite
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up to par with the rest of this device
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on around the side of this device the
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port selection is becoming pretty common
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here we got a usb type-c on both sides
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and those can be used for charging they
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can be used for audio and video output
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whatever you want to use your usb-c for
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if you want to dock that all that kind
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of stuff
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but it also has a usb type a and a
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headphone microphone jack on the left
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side which came in really really handy
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for us we were trying to record some
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audio we had a macbook we had a pixel
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slate and we were running into issues
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with dongles and all this kind of stuff
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and we brought the c434 in removed all
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the dongles plugged everything directly
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into what needed to be plugged into and
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everything just worked the way it was
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supposed to so it was a really practical
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example of why a standard usb type a and
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headphone microphone jacks still have a
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place even in devices that are thin and
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light additionally on the right hand
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side of the device we get an sd card
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slot and in some of the higher end
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models like the pixel book and pixel
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slate you don't get that either and so
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it's nice to have that along with all
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these other ports to expand your storage
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if you'd like to it comes with 64 gigs
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of internal storage but a lot of people
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want to store movies and all that kind
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of stuff locally this gives you the
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option to do that and underneath you get
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some pretty good speakers here asus
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actually talked about these speakers on
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the website on the landing page for this
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particular chromebook and rightly so
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they sound really really good they're
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not quite as good as what the pixel
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slate does but it it kind of set the bar
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really high for thin and light devices
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having great speakers but this comes in
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at a close second and i really really
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enjoyed watching a few shows and lots of
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youtube videos and stuff on this device
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because those speakers are really really
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nice to listen to finally let's talk
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about internals because all the outer
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pieces can be great and if the internals
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are slow or laggy it can ruin the entire
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experience it doesn't matter how good
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your screen or aluminum are
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thankfully that's just not the case with
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the c434 while the internals aren't
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perfect they're very very good so let's
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start with the core m3 that is the
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processor here 8th gen 30 000 on octane
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the thing just gets along really really
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well
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for reference the
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core i5 pixel book that i have that i
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work from all the time it gets about 27
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000 on octane so if you're looking at
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synthetic benchmarks it gets along
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really well
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but i can just tell you from day to day
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use hooking it up to my external monitor
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and writing articles and doing all sorts
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of stuff on this device
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no issues whatsoever with performance
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ram however could be a little bit of an
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issue and we'll come right back to that
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it's paired up with 64 gigs of internal
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storage that again can be expanded via
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the sd card slot so that's really not
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that big of a deal either i'd love to
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see 128 gig for what it's worth
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but the ram could be a sticking point
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for some people and probably could be a
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reason that some people would choose not
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to buy it and i get it if you're a
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person that has
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30 40 tabs open all the time it's really
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annoying to see those tabs refreshed
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when you go back to revisit them for me
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that only happened one time but i'm
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usually between 12 and 15 tabs and a
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handful of other applications open so
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maybe i'm not the best use case there
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and your mileage may vary and asus has
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said that we'll see eight gig versions
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of this device down the road we just
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don't know when so right now this is the
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version you can buy and if you're
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looking at this chromebook and thinking
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whether or not it's for you remember
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four gigs of rams all you get right now
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and if that hasn't worked for you in the
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past it's probably not going to work for
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you right now either so with all that
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being said the question always comes
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down to should you buy this chromebook
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it's 569 dollars right now and that
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price can fluctuate a little bit here
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and there but at msrp should you go buy
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it i can confidently say that this is
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the best chromebook experience you can
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get right now for under 600 and that's
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counting every chromebook that we've
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reviewed on this channel and everything
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that i've come into contact with there's
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just something a little bit nicer about
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the asus chromebook flip c434 it just
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feels a little more premium than
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everything else in this price bracket
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and i think if you go spend your money
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on it that you're going to feel like you
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put your money towards something that's
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a little bit more premium a little bit
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nicer and you're going to enjoy the
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overall experience of using this
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chromebook but guys that's it for this
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one hopefully we helped you make a
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purchasing decision if we did give it a
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