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Finally got my hands on the Dell Chromebook 13! Check out what's in the box along with my initial impressions!
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hey folks are we paying with chromevox
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coming at you today with an unboxing of
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the brand-new Dell Chromebook 13 a lot
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of people haven't gotten their hands on
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this guy yet it is a little bit
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difficult to get a hold of I found a
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handful of places on Amazon that are
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reselling it and it's only the seller on
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version I put in a pre-order for the i3
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8 gig version and it's been over a month
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now and it's still in quote
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pre-production so I think I'm gonna go
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and cancel that one I just want to get
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my hands on this get enough idea and a
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feel for the build quality I'll let you
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guys kind of know initial impressions on
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this as always review will be coming as
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I said before this is the I don't know
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if it has anything on the outside here
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doesn't look like it yeah there we go
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Celeron 3 2005 you so that's the 5th gen
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or Celeron that's been popping up in a
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lot of Chromebooks quite powerful able
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to do most things the pacer c910 a 15
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inch Acer that I'm using right now at
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this exact same setup so 4 gigs of RAM
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you can't update to our upgrade to 8
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gigs of ram unless you go with the i3
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processor or above and so that gets into
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some money I think from Dell the i3 with
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eight gigs ram 650 this device comes in
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at 429 starting from Dell which I don't
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know how long the process would be to
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get this one but from Amazon I ordered
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it from I don't remember what the
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company was ordered it and it was sent
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within within the day so that was pretty
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quick we're gonna set this guy down here
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for right now and rest of the box is
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pretty standard fare nothing fancy at
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all here normal warranty stuff go ahead
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and get the power brick out because we
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know how these things tend to work
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way of course as normal a full-on review
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will be happening within a week or so of
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using this device I have high hopes that
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a co-worker of mine is actually he's in
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the process of switching to Chrome OS
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and has been rocking a chrome box we
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have around the office this may be end
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up being his computer so that would be
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pretty cool if that ends up being the
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case so while I'm getting this plug
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pulled out we'll talk about the device
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just a little bit it is a 13.3 inch
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device 1080p IPS display on this one the
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non touch versions i've not seen anybody
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with a touch version yet I don't even
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know if they're shipping yet it has a
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matte finish on the display as I said
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thirteen point three inches 1080p so I
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should have some pretty nice anti glare
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on the outside we got a carbon fiber
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we've get it up closer here so you guys
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can see if you can see that it's a
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really soft touch I'm think I think like
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Nexus 5 a nexus 7 2013 edition that kind
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of feel real real soft like Swedish kind
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of feeling which is kind of neat very
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attractive
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it's very understated not the finished
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thing in the world but not thick either
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definitely just manageable it just looks
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pro we got that magnesium Halloway body
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nice and firm looks good again it's just
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just really attractive nice nice lines
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on the device
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nothing really across the front say the
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light for when were charging on the side
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it looks like we have a USB 2.0
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Kensington over on the other side we've
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got full size HDMI 3.0 USB here fro
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microphone jack micro SD card slot and
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your charger that is an interesting
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thing when we have full sized ports here
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it's interesting that they we're gonna
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focus here it's interesting that they
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went with the micro SD card slot but
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hopefully you have one of those laying
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around if you do need to increase the
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storage this device probably is not
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going to stay in my hand so I'm not
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gonna go cracking it open but it looks
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like we could probably remove some
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pop the top off and really highly likely
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we could expand the storage if need be
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ram likely it's not gonna be expandable
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so let's open the guy up very tough
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hinge so there's no one one-handed open
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but it feels nice and firm I mean
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there's not a lot of wiggle there at all
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I'm cracking the thing open again that
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same magnesium alloy continues on the
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inside got a decent texture on the keys
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really good travel those feel really
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really good so a lot of times a low
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travel Keys end up feeling a little bit
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mushy these have a nice clique to them
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they're not loud but that feels very
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precise that's gonna be a really good
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typing experience really significantly
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wide trackpad not really deep though so
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hopefully that's not going to be an
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annoyance it probably won't but plenty
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of room whole hand fits across it and
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the best part about it is its glass so
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it has just an awesome feel to it I
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think MacBook Chromebook pixel that
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thing feels great I'm very small clique
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very nice so we got power on Oh
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powering up real fast
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this one might actually be dead usually
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the ship and they won't turn on until
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and we might be dead so let me get some
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more room on this
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that's cable normally we just have to we
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just have to plug it in and unplug it
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we're good to go
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we'll see what happens once it boots up
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so the matte finish displaying already
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tail and here we're not seeing much
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glare and at all really and I think you
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can probably see that on there
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everything's there's some glare but it's
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totally muted ooh that's a fun
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background let's get on this I don't
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care if you guys see our office Wi-Fi
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password that's completely okay that
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carbon-fibre looks awesome this
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background the the pixels are really
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really sharp reeled in since you would
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expect from 1080p on a 13.3 inch display
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and you tell as I get closer and closer
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there's just not much room for pixels in
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there it's just clean looking it looks
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really really nice pretty bright and
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again because of the anti glare no
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matter which way I bend it we're not
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seeing what to junk glaring all over the
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place so really good screen well done
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Dell for those of you who saw the Dell
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Chromebook 11 review that I did back
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Gee's since probably been over a year
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ago the screen on it was abysmal it was
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just a terrible terrible screen you know
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we do have plenty of batteries so I'm
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gonna put this it was a it was a
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terrible screen I'll pull this off and
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sign in real fast so kudos to Dell for
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getting that fixed
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load up settings here and performance
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wise we're not probably gonna run into
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any surprises here at all really we're
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looking at a lot of the same internals
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with some other Chromebooks I'm gonna
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get my sync password in there
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so very capable Celeron processor
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matched up with four gigs of ram which
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for most people in most situations even
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for me in most situations is plenty man
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that trackpad feels good gosh that feels
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great
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what is this it's interesting so of
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course all gestures work really nicely
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on it and honestly guys let's be honest
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though for the most part gestures and
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and tracking long track pats has been
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great for a while with most Chromebooks
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even on cheep cheep track pads what
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feels great under this is just the way
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the thing feels and moves underneath
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your finger the whole thing just comes
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off looking very premium it feels very
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good give you kind of a side view here
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it's just uh it's a really handsome
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machine it's a it's a good looking
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device and does take some of its keys
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from the Chromebook 11 it does kind of
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feel like a blown-up version of that a
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little bit you got a nice none
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non-glossy panel around here since this
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one isn't covering Gorilla Glass 4 since
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it's not touch you don't have to worry
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about fingerprints collecting here
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and out here it looks like it hangs on
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them a little bit a little bit of
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fingerprint magnet but not much at all
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magnesium alloy doesn't collect
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fingerprints almost at all so this thing
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should stay really clean looking which
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is nice one more time we want to run a
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quick benchmark for you maybe play a
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song or to see how the speakers fire and
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then what kind of call it a day on this
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one can't state enough how real nice how
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nice that track that feels it's that's
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kind of a treat and I have a feeling
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that typing on those things gonna be
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really really nice as well
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yah-tchi finger scrolling is great yeah
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that track that's nice the only track
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pads I've felt that good Chromebook
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pixel and mighty 6:50 trackpad and or a
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MacBook that's really nice that for me
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input devices matter like that's what
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you interact with a lot and so having a
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nice mouse or a nice trackpad
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is a really really huge factor one other
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thing I think it's alt yep so if we tilt
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it back you can see the backlit keyboard
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they're always a nice touch you don't
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need it all the time but it's a nice
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touch now this octane scores probably be
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a little low because everything's
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installing in the background I'm messing
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around with it all that kind of stuff
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but you'll get the idea
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the Celeron I found this fifth
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generation seller on just really
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performs well no problems at all I do
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wish you could outfit it with eight gigs
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of ram and I've said that a hundred
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times before but for right now that's
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just not an option at this point and
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will run all run octane living signed
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out when we do the review and for most
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people the Optima things here as long as
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this is a lap computer right on the desk
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the stuff everything on the screen isn't
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gonna be too small but keep in mind with
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a 13.3 inch device that 1080p does tend
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to push everything to be a little bit
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smaller than than normal so we'll do a
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little bit of this teeny speakers I
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expect they're pretty loud
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their rear for our bottom firing so it's
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in your lap it's probably gonna be
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muffled you know they don't really hold
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a candle to the Toshiba speakers or
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pixel Wow
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yeah so that's not accurate at all again
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we were doing a bunch of stuff I think
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we're almost done installing things so
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let's run that one more time we'll call
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it a day here actually I guess we're
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gonna do this let's uh go ahead and
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restart to update so while this is
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restarting overall really really pleased
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with the packaging here the screen looks
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awesome keyboard feels great trackpad
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really really feels great I'm not seeing
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any weird spots on the screen light
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bleed the matte finish is always welcome
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especially when it doesn't cause
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graininess overall build quality feels
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really sturdy really firm no creaking no
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give whatsoever in that thing that
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magnesium alloy is the real deal and so
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I'm actually going to browse as a guest
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and we'll run octane in here
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so I'm thinking for a co-worker of mine
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who is in the process of kind of moving
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over to Chrome OS I think this is gonna
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be a great device for him he really like
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the size of the Toshiba but there's some
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build quality issues there he just
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wasn't real satisfied with the feel of
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it I mean that's understanding what he's
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coming from a MacBook Pro so he's just
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used to having that kind of premium
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build and I think you get this in the
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Dell
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so I mean you're talking $100 difference
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between this and the Toshiba really
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there's not a lot of physical
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differences 13.3 inch 1080p Celeron 4
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gigs 16 bit 16 gigs of internal storage
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which it looks like can be replaced on
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both of them if you want to upgrade the
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big win here is that you get an
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anti-glare screen you get a glass
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trackpad those are the big ups here the
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Toshiba wins and the speaker Department
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if that's important so 13-3 I bet if
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again if run in different circumstances
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we could probably push 14 or above that
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so we'll I'll try a few more of those
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before before we do the review either
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way
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it's plenty fast and no problems there
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and so so far so good with the Dell
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Chromebook 13 stick around guys week we
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can have hopefully we'll have the review
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posted give you some further further
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insight on this device but already I can
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tell you it's it looks really nice and
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for 4:29 it's it's a great great
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computer great buy it already seems like
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just from initial impressions
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who knows when you find some other
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things out but it's a Chromebook so more
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than likely now we're not gonna run into
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any surprises in the full review so
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that's gonna be it for today thanks for
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