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[Music]
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hey both Robbie Payne with chrome
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unboxed and today we're gonna take a
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very special look at basically
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unreleased software at this point it is
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Chrome OS 70 running on the pixel book
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it is in dev channel but there are no
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flags here this is all stuff that is
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rolled out to the dev channel and we
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would expect to roll all the way down to
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the stable channel by about mid-october
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and if that date sounds kind of familiar
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that'll be just a couple of weeks after
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Google's Hardware event on October 4th
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and we're fully expecting to see a few
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new Chromebooks there specifically one
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that looks to be a detachable tablet
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sort of device by the name of Nocturne
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at this point we expected to be part of
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the pixel book family and so we're
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seeing all these changes come up and and
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start to show up on the pixel book
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currently and actually on the Acer
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Chromebook Tab 10 as well and maybe a
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handful of other devices we're maybe
0:56
sure at this point this is such new news
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but what we're seeing most of that the
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difference is in the changes in the new
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software we're seeing all work and help
1:06
tablet mode for Chrome OS and so we want
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to look through some of these changes we
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want to show you some of them on camera
1:12
because this is the largest update I
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think I've ever seen since I've had a
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Chromebook usually they have that a few
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things here a few things there and maybe
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some flags and that kind of stuff but
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this time around they have overhauled
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the tablet experience on this device and
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we want to get in and show you all the
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new things ok so we're going to talk
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through there's a ton of changes as I
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said in the open there's a ton of
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changes here so we're going to talk to
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them kind of piece by piece and work
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through basically from the simpler
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changes that are maybe less interesting
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to the more interesting and more drastic
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changes as we move along so stick with
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us throughout this video so first up is
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the files app looks pretty similar here
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but you'll notice on the left side over
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here we've got some things that are in a
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different order so we've got Google
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Drive instead of being up top it's now
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down at the bottom and kind of like your
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other mounted files over here so now
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your galleries of images video and audio
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are up top we've got your files down
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here so you can see your downloaded
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folders you can also see all of your
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play files so those would work for any
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app that you installed it actually
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writes
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to any part of the disk they'll show up
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in here I don't have a ton here because
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I don't have a ton of Android apps
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installed at this point we literally
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just move this thing to dev in order to
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see all these changes additionally you
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would see the Linux app files here as
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well so if you're working with any kind
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of Linux app again look forward to the
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day where I get to use Inkscape on a
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regular basis with Linux apps I would
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have to work with those files over here
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and this side but they would be there
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and easy to get to completely integrated
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into the filesystem and then you move
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down to Google Drive which behaves is
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exactly like it used to it's just moved
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down to the bottom now additionally over
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here now we have our show all play
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folders so if I uncheck that and we look
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at our play files we just see the basics
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and so when I check that now we get all
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of the things that would be stored here
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via any apps that you have on your
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system you can show hidden files which I
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don't think I've got any of those in an
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add new service which is where you would
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go to do an SFTP or file system for
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Dropbox for instance and when you click
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that the same thing comes up as it used
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to it's just now instead of being over
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here in the file picker it's over in the
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menu or it feels like it kind of belongs
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and so that's really it for the file
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system but it's some nice changes in the
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files app is one of the pieces of Chrome
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OS that needs to keep getting updated
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and so it's nice to see them starting to
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tweak some of these options on it so now
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the next small change but it's pretty
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drastic as far as the way it looks is
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the wallpaper picker so we've talked
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about this quite a bit over the last few
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months we've seen it coming it's been in
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like canary and that kind of stuff but
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when I right-click here you can tell the
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menu is different you get these nice
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rounded corners we're gonna see tons of
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stuff that mimics the look and feel of
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Android P or Android Pi on phones so if
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you have a phone that has it a lot of
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the stuffs gonna start feeling kind of
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consistent to you so here's where you
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would Auto hide yourself your shelf set
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your wallpaper and then you can change
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your shelf position so for sake of the
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next piece of this I'm gonna go ahead
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and move it over to the left but let's
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look at the wallpaper picker real quick
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and you can see now brings up this nice
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new material design familiar if you've
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had a good
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phone or you've used the Google
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wallpaper app a lot of these wallpapers
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are the same wallpapers you can now do a
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daily refresh so you just click this and
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whatever category you choose you click
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that and you'll get a new wallpaper each
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and every day choose the wallpaper you
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want and boom it's set so it's pretty
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simple it works exactly like you think
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and there's lots and lots of wallpapers
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they add more and it takes them out as
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time goes by but it's it works just like
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the one did before there's just a better
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selection and some better aesthetics
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overall to the wallpaper picker so let's
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talk about the shelf and the settings
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tray and so I have this over here for a
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particular reason because before we get
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in talked about what they've changed
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here the notifications in the way they
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stack make a lot more sense for the
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users that really like to have the
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entire shelf over on the left or the
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right because now everything stacks
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vertically so the notifications sit
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right on top of your system tray kind of
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stacked this way versus having to
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separate pop outs going on here that was
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kind of awkward before but for the sake
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of the rest of this video I like my
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shelf position to be on the bottom so
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we're gonna move it back down here for
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now so if you take a look at the new
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settings tray you can a see that it's
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dark down now but if you look really
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closely it's actually kind of the same
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blur as the application tray has been
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for a little while you can see your
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background through it just ever so
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slightly and so it's just a really nice
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a nice effect that they have carried
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over not just there but in these kind of
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toast settings as well again it's it's
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probably difficult to tell on camera but
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you can see the ever slight parts of
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your background through that and through
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like the keyword brightness same thing
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it's kind of got this slight opacity
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that you can actually see some of your
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background through it's just a nice
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touch it looks really nice and then as
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you look at this and we slide these up
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and down or you can click on your mouse
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here hopefully you're seeing a lot of
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the similarities again to Android P and
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I've got my pixel right here and you can
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actually see as I drag this down and
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drag this up all the similarities going
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on here I mean the icons are the same
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round circles dark backgrounds the same
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way they animate
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Google clearly is taking this update and
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moving lots of things all the good
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things just like they've said they were
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going to do all the good things from
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Android and they're kind of pulling
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those things slowly but surely and
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you're gonna see as this video goes on
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more and more of that stuff so in
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addition to some of the other trait
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options so with the you know set
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wallpaper that kind of stuff getting
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this new menu treatment all of your
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icons in your shelf actually get the
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same menu treatment now most of the
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stuff I have up here these are all
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either PWA s or their websites that are
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set up for shortcuts and so you can kind
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of see when we long press those you get
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a nice new menu here and you says new
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window so I can click that for new
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window but I get my option over here
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whether I want a new tab or a new window
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and so I've set my messages to be a new
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window it's gonna pop up in a new window
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and she would expect and additionally
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they've added so either with a
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right-click to finger click or a long
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press on Android apps just like you
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would on a phone if you long press those
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apps you kind of get some extra little
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settings the same thing goes here so now
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you get with Google Play Books I get not
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only to open or unpin it now I get these
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little extras here so shop or library
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which is again the same thing you would
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see on the phone you would long press
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those things in your launcher and have
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those extra icons so if you have a
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messaging app for instance you can long
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press it and it'll bring up the option
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to go ahead and create a new message or
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it might bring up your most recently
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used contacts and so lots of cool little
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things going on just in the shelf and
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the icons in the tray right now
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everything's looking a lot more Android
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and behaving a lot more like Android all
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right now we're going to move on to the
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part where things get pretty interesting
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and pretty drastically different than
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what they've been so we're not just
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gonna be talking about small little menu
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changes and stuff we're talking about
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some pretty big UI overhauls here so if
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you remember the app launcher probably
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on the current Chromebook you're using
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right now when you bring that thing up
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you get all your icons kind of centered
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in the screen and it looks small and a
8:35
little odd honestly that is not the case
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anymore so I'm going to bring up just
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the peaking part of the launcher and so
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now we have the arrow up top we have the
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Google search here and then basically
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these little
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probably AI driven maybe some machine
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learning driven suggestions here so it
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could be a website you've been on
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recently or that it thinks you normally
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would visit or an app you've just
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recently opened it's gonna be similar to
9:02
what you see again on the pixel phone
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whenever you either go into multitasking
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mode or you slide your app tray up
9:08
there's some favorites up there at the
9:09
top and those things change based on the
9:11
time of day or your behavior who knows
9:13
you can also see some slight curvature
9:15
to the sides here they haven't figured
9:18
out the transparency it looks like
9:19
around the corners of that but clearly
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this whole thing's gonna have that kind
9:23
of new curved Google pill-shaped thing
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going on and you can even watch as I
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bring this up you can watch the corners
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say if you look really closely they'll
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slowly curve themselves back out and
9:33
square up to meet the screen and you
9:35
probably have noticed something very
9:36
different now you have this huge grid
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that fills the screen and kind of looks
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a lot more native it looks like it fits
9:44
on the screen and makes sense here
9:45
instead of having some little bitty grid
9:47
here in the middle
9:48
additionally the points now paginate you
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one at a time versus just kind of speed
9:53
scrolling you through stuff right now
9:56
I can't reorganize anything in here
9:58
because the crash is Chrome OS again
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this is developer Channel
10:01
but you can see new folders that look
10:03
exactly again like what you'd see on the
10:06
pixel pixel - that kind of stuff so
10:08
anything running Android Pi right now so
10:11
ostensibly you'd be able to drag stuff
10:13
around and create folders again I can't
10:14
do that right now without crashing the
10:16
entire system but everything else in
10:19
here is pretty much unchanged the the
10:21
scrolling feels way better than it has
10:23
up into this point but the app tray in
10:26
general just looks like it belongs here
10:29
now and and it feels better than it did
10:32
before this all becomes even more
10:34
interesting when we flip into tablet
10:36
mode so yeah that happened so there is
10:43
no getting away from the app tray
10:45
basically when you're in tablet mode so
10:47
you kind of got to think of it more like
10:49
you're holding one of these kind of
10:50
tablets and so when I go to the home
10:52
screen for instance on this tablet you
10:54
get the same thing so this is the Acer
10:56
Chromebook 10 and the reason I'm not
10:58
showing you a lot of the stuff on this
10:59
device is it's really struggling with
11:01
the dev channel right now so performance
11:03
is real bad over here but this is kind
11:06
of your home screen now I'm gonna change
11:08
to something hopefully not flip out the
11:09
the camera too much I'm gonna try to
11:12
change to something that's just more
11:13
textured and less busy in the background
11:16
and the reason I'm gonna do that and I
11:18
think that at least for now maybe this
11:21
is a better option for the way that
11:23
they've got this a really nice
11:25
transition there by the way set the
11:27
wallpaper if that helps a little bit it
11:30
helps the icons just kind of pop up off
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there I'm not really sure what they're
11:33
going to do with this I'm not a huge fan
11:35
of the completely transparent tray I
11:37
like the fact that when it's in
11:39
clamshell mode it kind of blurs that
11:41
background it makes these icons pop they
11:43
kind of get lost and and it doesn't seem
11:45
to matter what I put in the background
11:47
it's kind of hard to see them and so my
11:50
guess is they're probably working on a
11:51
solution to that may be either dimming
11:53
the background a little bit or they're
11:54
gonna lightly blur it I I'm just not
11:57
sure what they're gonna do with this but
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for the time being it looks like this
12:01
launcher is kind of a fixed situation
12:03
when you're in tablet mode and that's
12:04
not really the worst thing it kind of is
12:06
nice to have these things up here
12:08
similar to the way a iPad would would
12:10
function or an Android tablet function
12:11
there's stuff on the screen all the time
12:13
instead of just kind of having this big
12:14
blank space that really doesn't do
12:16
anything and so the other thing that's a
12:19
little weird with this kind of
12:21
transparency and tablet mode if I open
12:23
up an instance of Chrome and honestly it
12:25
doesn't matter what I open if anything I
12:26
open up the bar is not getting dark down
12:29
here anymore and that is just
12:32
off-putting to me like this should be
12:33
solid colored instead of showing the
12:35
background my guess is that's probably a
12:37
bug they just haven't fixed that just
12:39
yet but this is a nice segue into the
12:42
next piece and that's how we deal with
12:43
multitasking on these things so now
12:46
things start to get really interesting
12:47
so we're gonna talk about how Chrome OS
12:49
is starting to handle multitasking and
12:51
again this is dev so some of this stuff
12:52
could change or probably gonna see even
12:54
more features and as I move through some
12:56
of this you might see some hiccups and
12:58
stutters in the animation remember this
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is stuff that is work in progress but
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it's a really cool sign of where we're
13:04
going with this stuff and so they've
13:05
they've taken some things from from
13:08
Windows which I feel like did tablet
13:10
mode pretty well especially with
13:12
multitasking because
13:14
I pad actually pulled from some of that
13:16
stuff to the ticking some of those
13:17
little pieces and kind of putting it
13:19
together their own way and it's it's
13:20
actually really cool very satisfying to
13:22
use so far again don't pay attention to
13:24
the the transparent bar down here I feel
13:27
like that's gonna go away but for now
13:29
that's that's what it is
13:30
so say I've got an instance of chrome
13:32
running here and then okay we got files
13:35
app I've got a low
13:38
I've got chrome and box that I turned
13:40
into a web app I just downloaded and
13:43
opened it up and Google Play Books so
13:47
we've got all of those apps running so
13:49
now say I'm here and I'm holding the
13:52
device and I just want to maybe either
13:54
go side by side or see what all I've got
13:56
open you notice there's no top bar
13:58
anymore so there's no X and minus
14:00
anything
14:01
everything's just nice in full screen
14:03
which is really cool that's a big
14:05
benefit here so how do you minimize your
14:09
your application you simply drag from
14:11
the top and you can get this floating
14:13
window drop it in its space now you have
14:16
this familiar multitasking screen that
14:18
we've had for a little while now but the
14:20
cool thing from this is now I can long
14:22
press one of these drag it to the side
14:24
drop it in there and then go I need
14:27
chrome and box open and as we've been
14:30
able to do before you can resize and so
14:33
now we've got an Android app and a
14:34
chrome OS app running over here next to
14:37
one another when we're done with either
14:40
one of them again drag down drop here
14:42
choose the one I want or we can drag
14:46
this one down as well put him back over
14:48
there when I'm done with these similar
14:50
again to what you do in Android just
14:52
flick them away and they're gone and
14:56
most of that animated really really well
14:58
so well done on on this so this is a big
15:02
change like we're in clamshell mode
15:04
moving Windows around is you know that's
15:07
just normal for everyone at this point
15:08
window interfaces are pretty standard
15:10
but tablet interfaces and multitasking
15:13
are not something that a lot of people
15:15
have done right and I think Apple and
15:18
Microsoft deserve some credit for things
15:20
that they've done up to this point and
15:22
I'm glad Google is kind of taking some
15:23
of those things and working them into
15:25
Chrome OS at this point
15:27
the tablet mode has needed some love and
15:30
it looks like it's finally getting it
15:31
well last but not least I want to talk
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about probably my favorite feature in
15:35
this slew of updates and that is the
15:38
keyboard the on-screen keyboard for
15:40
Chromebooks has been passable it's not
15:43
men great it's not a terrible just okay
15:46
but it's not really been a joy to use
15:48
this changes that so if I go up here and
15:51
I go to type keyboard comes up and I can
15:54
use this keyboard but grabbing it here
15:56
it's really far and spaced out and it
15:59
just doesn't feel natural at all if this
16:01
were a tablet now holding it feels
16:03
pretty gross
16:04
all the normal stuff still here so most
16:06
of us definitely change so you've got
16:08
your handwriting stuff you got your
16:09
basic settings and you got your voice
16:11
input which by the way it you would
16:14
expect it to but it works with really
16:15
really really well but now there's this
16:17
new button here and that's what happens
16:20
you get this floating keyboard that's
16:22
nice and small and can go anywhere and
16:23
always stays on top of everything and so
16:26
as you're filling out things so if I
16:27
have it here and I type here and I start
16:29
typing it didn't move out this is Google
16:33
so let's hit enter and going here so now
16:37
click in here again and boom pops back
16:40
up and I'm typing even if it's over top
16:43
of that type type type type doesn't
16:44
matter it moves and does anything I
16:47
needed to do until I hit return and it
16:49
goes and it goes away all by itself
16:51
until it needs it again and it brings it
16:53
up or I can dismiss it just like that
16:56
it's brilliant it works so so well I
17:00
can't say enough good things about it I
17:02
haven't had any issues with it it moves
17:04
around smooth everywhere it needs to go
17:06
you have swipe functionality the only
17:08
thing that's missing from something like
17:09
G board would be like you know GF
17:11
support and stickers it's got basic
17:13
emojis which is it's fine but to get
17:16
some of the gifs support in the keyboard
17:18
would be awesome and it seems like so
17:20
much work is being done on this keyboard
17:21
now if this kind of floating setup and
17:24
the ability to use it this way that who
17:26
knows I we all thought that they were
17:27
just gonna replace this with G board
17:29
maybe they're gonna keep this and just
17:30
port G boards features into this and if
17:32
that's the case that's fine it was
17:34
working that well and I'm so pleased
17:36
with using this thing that I hope it
17:38
kind of sticks around because it's just
17:40
so
17:41
to be able to move your keyboard no
17:43
matter where the the place is that you
17:44
need to be typing text you can just kind
17:46
of move this keyboard out of the way and
17:48
type in and swipe or whatever you want
17:50
to do or voice dictate and get it out of
17:52
the way it's it's just excellent so well
17:54
well done Google on the keyboard and
17:57
honestly for most of this stuff again I
17:59
know it's mostly in development well
18:00
done on all of it all these things
18:02
moving forward I just didn't see any of
18:04
this stuff coming immediately and I for
18:06
sure did not see all of the stuff coming
18:08
all at once and so we're really starting
18:10
to get a picture of what Chrome OS is
18:12
gonna start looking like as as 2018
18:15
moves forward and especially for devices
18:17
like Nocturne that we expect to see in
18:19
October all these developments as they
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kind of come and coquí's together and
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and give us a more complete picture of
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Chrome OS it's gonna look really awesome
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on a really high end high spec tablet
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type device I cannot wait to see it I
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cannot wait not only just to see that
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hardware but to see this software
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running on it as well and guys that's
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about it for this thing now hopefully if
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you have a device that has chrome OS 70
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in the developer channel you take the
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leap jump over switch over to the
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developer Channel play with some of this
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stuff and see some of these new features
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if not I'm sure 70 will be coming to a
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lot of devices pretty soon and the ones
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that have clamshell or tablet mode
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you'll be able to actually use some of
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these features and kind of start playing
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around with this stuff before it shows
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up in October but that's about it for
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