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so I've spent the better part of a week
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the Asus Chromebook flip c4 34 and a lot
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of you are really interested in it and
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we've gotten a lot of emails about it
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and a lot of questions surrounding this
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device and though I haven't formed all
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of my opinions for a full review I do
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have a few thoughts I want to share with
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forward slash forma fo RMA so with this
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device there's a lot of stuff I like
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already and there's a couple things that
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are causing me a bit of concern using it
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on a daily basis and so I just want to
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talk really briefly about some of those
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things again I'm forming some of my
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opinions about these things cuz certain
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things that bother me for a little while
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won't after a little bit and other
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things that don't bother me will crop up
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after time goes by so the build quality
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I think has to be discussed because this
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thing is just built really really well
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it feels great in the hand it looks
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great on a table when we're talking
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about those little slim bezels they
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affect the entire device in general and
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I say that because the smallness of the
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bezels you look at that all the time and
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so every time you kind of glance upon
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the device it's attractive looking but
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it also incorporates in the way that the
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hinge works and kind of slides
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underneath the keyboard and gives that
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slight lift it's made the typing
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experience feel really good it also
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makes a device lighter because it
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physically is smaller and it's smaller
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in your bag as well and it's easier to
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handle and it just looks really good
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so asus has done a really really good
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job of putting together a really solid
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package here and so I've really just
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enjoyed the way the thing is put
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the way it looks speaking of those
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bezels they surround a pretty good
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screen here and this is becoming kind of
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commonplace on Chromebooks these 1080p
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class screens they're just good it's a
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little bit warm I have noticed that but
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when I first got it out of the box I was
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kind of put off because it was next to I
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think it was a pixel book maybe and it's
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a pretty cool screen so it looked even
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more warm than normal but as I've used
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it over the course of this last week
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it's it's done pretty good I can tell
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under extreme lighting environments with
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lots of Sun it's gonna struggle just a
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little bit not really sure what kind of
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effect that's gonna have on the battery
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long-term so far it hasn't seemed to
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hurt it too bad but I've had to have the
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brightness cranked up a little higher
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than I want but overall the screen has
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been pretty good and I just love love
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looking at it with those tiny bezels
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around the edges and as my main device
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this has been the only thing I've been
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typing on and using trackpad width now I
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use a mouse every once in a while when
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I'm at my desk but I've been out and
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about a lot more than normal so I've
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typed a lot on this and I've used the
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trackpad on it a lot and after the day 1
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day 2 testing of it I would have told
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you the trackpad would have been an
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issue but I think I was just in a humid
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environment and probably any trackpad
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would have struggled then I haven't had
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any issue since then with it it's not
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glass it's either aluminum or some sort
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of plastic but it seems to get along
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click mechanisms nice the keyboard at
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first again I thought was probably a
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little more mushy than I wanted it to be
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and it's kind of growing on me
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I've typed quite a few articles on it so
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far and really starting to enjoy it and
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I had it with me in my living room last
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night and the backlighting kicked on and
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it was just a really nice welcoming
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thing to have as I was sitting in a more
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dimly lit room so overall input methods
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here I'm they're growing on me and so
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after a first couple days I want to set
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in not sure but but I'll come
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lastly I want to talk about performance
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and how this thing gets along one of the
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issues I had when they first dropped
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this particular version of this device
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and we don't have any other versions of
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it just yet there's a version of it with
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eight gigs of RAM that's available in
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the UK right now but right now for us in
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the US it's going to be the 8th gen core
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m3 4 gigs of ram 64 gigs of internal
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storage that's not the best spec sheet
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in the world again it's a $570 vice so
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we're not expecting you know top-end
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specs on everything but 8 gigs of ram
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would have been nice and so a lot of
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people are a little worried that four
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gigs of ram would not be enough so far
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I've not had any issues literally one
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time and that was actually today I was I
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had multiple tabs open at music players
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open I had graphic editors open add all
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kinds of stuff going and then I was
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condensing some photos that were
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literally 15 to 20 Meg's apiece massive
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massive photos that killed my RAM and it
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kicked me out of a couple tabs that I
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had open but other than that one time
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I've not had any issues with the RAM at
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all in this the processor the coram 3
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benchmarks and around 30,000 on octane
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so it's scooting along just fine and
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especially with a 1080p screen I haven't
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run into any issues yet again over time
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I might see more of these RAM issues
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come up and that'll be something for the
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review but for right now I'm enjoying
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the way through this thing performs pork
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selection is really good on it as well
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so we're getting a USBC on both sides
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and then a USB a so that that kind of
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dongle life isn't a concern either with
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this one and so yeah I mean just using
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it day in day out has been really really
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good what I keep going back to is
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feeling like this would be a device that
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I'm gonna put up against the HP
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Chromebook X 360 so they share a ton of
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I think the X 360 is a little faster and
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it has a little bit better specs but
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this one has some better aesthetic parts
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to it and so I'm thinking about all
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those things as I'm as I'm preparing
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this review but just wanted to give you
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guys a quick heads-up about kind of some
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of these initial impressions that are
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coming up after using this thing day in
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day out for a week hopefully hopefully
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within the next week we can have some
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like that we'll get around to getting a
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review out for you but I want to spend
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plenty of time with this thing so that
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we kind of have all the bases covered
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because this is an important device and
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it's one I know a lot of you guys have
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been looking forward to but guys that's
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