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A quick and different unboxing of my Chromebook Pixel. I'd like for this device to become my daily driver, but I wan't really ready to drop $1200 on one, so I bought one used on Ebay. This one didn't come with a box, so it's not your typical unboxing. Really more of a first impressions video.
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hey folks Rob Pay Here Again with chrome
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unbox coming at you today with something
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a little bit different um this is an
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unboxing but this is going to be the
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actual retail packaging uh this is my
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first Chromebook Pixel and I wanted to
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kind of give you all my uh initial take
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as I opened it up it is used I bought it
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off eBay uh from a guy that didn't use
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his very often but he did not have the
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box uh and I got a killer deal on it so
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um I wasn't going to complain too much
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so the boxing that we are uh unpacking
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today obviously is not Chromebook uh
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packaging uh but instead it's just a
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good old post office box now um I'm kind
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of doing this on a whim I just got the
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thing in and figured might as well put
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this on there I wasn't originally going
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to do an unboxing for this one
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um just because I don't have the
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original boxing and I know a lot of you
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when you see stuff you want to see what
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that original boxing looks like and
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holds and so uh we're going to treat
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this more as a as an initial Impressions
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kind of video uh because I have yet to
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touch one of these devices yet um the
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Best Buy around me have never had them
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so I've never had the ability to
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actually uh get my hands on one so this
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literally will be my first uh my first
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encounter with the pixel so of the
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things I've heard about the device one
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of them is that the charging block is
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kind of monstrous so let's see it is
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big uh but not crazy uh about the same
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size as the block for the Asus uh for
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instance uh the Asus Chrome box is what
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I'm speaking of and some of asus's
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others window other windows products um
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yeah pretty standard Fair there it is
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kind of heavy um so that accounts for
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something I suppose cuz the biggest uh
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drawback on this device um as most of
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you probably already know is battery uh
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most people report getting four to 5
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hours on a charge with this guy and
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compared to Haswell Chromebooks that's
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not really that great
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um packaged it up well it's
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good U and so all that being said I I
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really I've been looking on eBay a lot
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uh for one of these guys and didn't want
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to spend the 12 to4 or $1,500 that they
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cost retail but was willing to
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part with around 800 for one and I've
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I've lost many of auctions and won one
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the other day for around that price so
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um I was pretty excited to get my hands
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on it because I've gotten to the point
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guys where I work on a Chromebook every
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day all day haven't turned my Windows
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machine on in uh in quite some time to
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be honest with you so um I figured it
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was time to spend some money and and get
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a pixel especially after the last event
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um pretty much showed that they are not
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planning on making another Chromebook
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Pixel I know it's it's been rumored that
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they might and then rumored that they
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won't and blah blah blah it just looks
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apparent to me that that's probably not
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going to happen
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so um I'll say from pictures
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comparatively uh way more spelt than I
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expected um it just looks like it's
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chunkier in in pictures and videos and
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and so man Sleek as can be um in my unit
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here has got a couple slight not even
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really dings um maybe some disc ation
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kind of stuff it might just actually
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clean right up look like n that's that's
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all going to come off there too just not
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very wiped down so but um you know this
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smooth Chrome logo back here the awesome
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LED lights up top completely aluminum um
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completely closed up and man I got to
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say uh completely gorgeous even with all
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the little spots on there like I said
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come off with a white down
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um so first blush that a I love one
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finger opening uh for those of you who
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have watching my videos I'm a huge fan
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of that uh and then the screen
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immediately holy cow um how pretty is
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this
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thing um jeez viewing angles
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are perfect I mean I'm I'm looking at it
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from up top over on the side um probably
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see it on the video I mean I can just
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turn this thing as long as I'm not
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catching a ton of glare it it literally
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is 180° in in all directions
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so um wow man I've read about the build
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quality and heard about it and thought
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about it and all that kind of stuff for
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a long time and uh wow this thing
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is it's
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impressive um so yeah it'll bear a
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little clean up hopefully it'll look a
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little nicer won't have some of the flex
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on it by the time I get done with it
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um wow what a screen guys um it lives up
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to that and and and open
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just wow what a pretty device um
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trackpad feels great uh clicking is
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great um Keys feel really good and
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responsive
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um see if we're getting that led
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awesomeness on the back yep so we got
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the multicolored LED light on the back
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um basically this is all I wanted to do
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for this unboxing was just to give you
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my literally my raw imp impressions of
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the device opening up out of the box and
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wow um yeah other than probably a
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MacBook Pro never seen a device or felt
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a device that felt as premium as this
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already and I haven't even used it yet
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um but holy moly U just beautiful
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obviously touchscreen um part of the
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pixel experience and that uh 3x2 display
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really cool um and way less uh boxy
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again than it feels and probably even
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looks on the video uh in person the
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thing just strikes a better profile than
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it does does in any picture video I've
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seen so if you haven't seen one uh try
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to get your hands on one I'm going to do
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a full kind of review of it afterwards I
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know there's been tons of reviews and
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the devic is 8 n months old now so I'm
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not going to be doing anything new we're
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talking about probably anything new that
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anybody else hasn't but hopefully my uh
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unique experience with this device will
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be that I'm a daily driver Chromebook
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user now um I do everything from my
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Chromebook literally I don't I don't use
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anything else and so uh coming from that
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perspective I saying hey here's where
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the pixel really shines I don't know it
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may sway a few of you to at least look
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on eBay and see where you might be able
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to find one for uh4 or $500 discount
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over um over what it retails for and uh
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while I hope that one day uh Google does
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make a followup to this guy uh maybe a
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mid-range and a high-range followup uh
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I'm not holding my breath at this point
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I I really feel like they made this as a
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reference design and moved on um but I
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would love to see even if they reproduce
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this exact thing with just a Haswell
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class processor in it um same I5 same
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price all that kind of stuff but if it
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had 10 or 11 hours of battery life that
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would be a huge difference so um I I'll
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use it for a week or so give you my
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Impressions and obviously I've spent
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some money on this so plan on this being
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my Chromebook of choice for uh some time
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so hopefully the battery life isn't
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completely awful but usually I'm on a
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charger near a charger any or near
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Outlet anyway so it really doesn't
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matter um keep it locked to the to the
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channel if you like this video give me a
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thumbs up uh subscribe there will be
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more coverage of this and other
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Chromebooks I've got the Samsung
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Chromebook too on the way whenever it
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stops being delayed and shows up I've
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got uh uh Chrome bases and other stuff
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on the way as well we'll be reviewing
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unboxing and talking about all those
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things and now we've got the uh official
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Google reference device to kind of stack
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them all up against um so uh it'll be an
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interesting review for sure uh keep it
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locked here we'll see you next time
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thanks for
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watching
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