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As 2018 came to a close, we saw a rise in the more premium Chromebooks from manufacturers. The Dell Inspiron Chromebook 14 is Dell's entry into this emerging space.
With a substantial, all-aluminum build, great screen, included stylus, and fast internals, is this Chromebook worth the $599 asking price?
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since their inception Chromebooks have
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been thought of as cheap computers cheap
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laptops just a browser a cheap way to
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get something that can get you online
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and while there are plenty of those
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affordable Chromebooks still available
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one change we're seeing is the
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introduction of more mid-range mid to
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upper range Chromebooks and Google
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started this with the introduction of
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the pixel book now the pixel lines that
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came before it tried to start this
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precedent and never really caught on but
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the pixel book seems to have started
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something that's changed manufacturers
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ideas of what it means to build a
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Chromebook and one of the devices that
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we're seeing kind of follow this new
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trend is this the dell inspiron
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Chromebook 14 the MSRP on this is 599
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dollars and so I feel like that puts it
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kind of right in the upper mid-range of
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Chromebooks because there's not a lot
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you can buy for $600 it's built as well
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it's this thing that brings all of the
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great flares that this device brings to
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the table and so we want to take a
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deeper look at what makes the dell
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inspiron Chromebook 14 a really good
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so let's start off just like we do with
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most reviews and talk about the screen
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this is a 16 by 9 so pretty standard
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display 14 inches diagonal but with
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pretty small bezels on on three of the
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sides and it's full HD so 1920 by 1080
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none of those specs stand out or make
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you think oh wow this is a unique
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experience but it's just a really good
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panel the brightness is really good
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somewhere around 300 nits viewing angles
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are great an IPS display and things just
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look really good
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1080p I've long said all the way up to
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fifteen point six inches or so is gonna
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remain pretty sharp and now that Chrome
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OS scales really well it doesn't matter
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if you want to make things a little
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larger on the screen or a little bit
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smaller everything's gonna stay nice and
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sharp and look really really great so
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no complaints whatsoever about the
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screen as I use this device as my main
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device for a few days I mean didn't use
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anything else but this it never once did
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I think man I can't wait to get back to
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my pixel book display because this
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display is terrible because I've done
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that before in certain circumstances
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this was not one of those circumstances
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this thing performed really really well
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colors are really really good the blacks
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are nice and rich and the bezels are
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small enough that it just it feels good
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it feels modern and it displays big
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enough if you're gonna use it on its own
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at 14 inches it's it's actually big
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enough to get a lot of work done on this
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this display alone and the horsepower as
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we'll talk about in a second is plenty
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if you want to push it to a secondary
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display as we move on down to the
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keyboard and trackpad I'd give them like
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a 7 out of 10 they're not the worst
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thing I've ever used they're also not
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the best so a lot of times I judge this
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stuff against the pixel book because
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Google put together a package there that
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it's just great the keyboard feels great
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in the trackpad feels great on the on
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the pixel book and this device is ok
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it's serviceable the keyboard to me
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feels a little bit mushy the the travel
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on the keys is great but the click on
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them leaves a lot to be desired and so
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sometimes I would miss keystrokes and
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you just can't tell when the the clicks
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not really good so if you're in the
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market for just the best keyboard you
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could possibly get this probably isn't
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gonna be it but it's backlit and a lot
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of people get upset about non backlit
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keyboards especially when we approach 5
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and $600 devices this one's got
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backlighting multiple stages for stages
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the trackpad while not being glass is
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pretty good the click mechanism feels
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pretty good it did overtime so over the
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course of a full day maybe tend to build
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up a little bit of oil on it which tells
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me it's probably not etched glass
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sometimes it's just difficult to tell
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I'm not exactly sure what material it's
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made out of but it performs really well
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so most of your gestures and all that
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kind of stuff they work just fine one
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thing I really do like about what Dells
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done here is port selection and so it's
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funny we moved through a phase where
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everybody just wanted to do USBC so the
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pixel book only has USB see and
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sometimes that's a little bit of a
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hang-up and I've got a search for a
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dongle or some sort of adapter the
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Samsung Chromebook plus and pro did the
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same thing the HP Chromebook x2 so some
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of these newer devices they want to keep
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things slim and
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USBC is great I love USBC just sometimes
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I need in a port to actually plug
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something into it it doesn't happen a
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ton for me but I know for certain users
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that's that's a big deal and having to
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carry a downlo around annoying so with
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this device you get the addition of a
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USB a with a USB C on both sides that
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will do display out and charging on both
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sides so whichever way you want to use
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it if you're gonna dock it into a
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keyboard and a monitor setup it can work
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with that you also have a micro SD card
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you've got headphone microphone jack
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which pretty much everything has but you
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know having an SD card having a USB a
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slot it's just a nice port selection I
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never really felt the need to go and get
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a bunch of dongles and figure out how I
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was gonna hook stuff into this one and
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while we're talking about ports the
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speakers on this thing are actually
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really really good
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they are downward firing and usually
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when I see that when I see speaker
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grilles on the underside of a device I
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automatically think yeah they phoned
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this one in it's just they're gonna be
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crapping speakers but the Dell managed
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to pull off something pretty nice here
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while there the speaker's don't actually
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like you know direct themselves at your
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face some like something like the Acer
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Chromebook 15 for instance would do
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they're they're really rich and really
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full and really nice sounding I was I
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was really surprised by it and had to
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watch a few things and think man think
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like these are these are really good
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speakers because there had been some
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devices where I would have figured hey
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this is gonna have great speakers and
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they've just been really mediocre really
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full of mid-range and kind of muddy
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sounding and these just aren't that they
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sound really really good so like if
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you're watching you know video or
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something are you gonna watch
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feature-length movies on here and enjoy
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the speakers and Dolby surround sound
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no let's not be crazy you know but as
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far as like watching a quick video or
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showing something to someone when you're
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holding the device that the speakers
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actually sound really good another thing
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I really like about what Dell is
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offering here is the stowable stylus and
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the reason I like styli styluses I don't
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you can let me know in the comments
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which one you think it is but the reason
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I like device is with a stylus that can
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be put into the machine is that I don't
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ever have to worry about whether it's
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there or not and I've talked about this
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before but that can be really really
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convenient now it is weird this one and
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the Acer Chromebook 13 both share the
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same place where they put it so it's
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right up underneath the front and you
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pull it out and it's great when it's
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sitting here as a as a laptop but when
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actually I have it folded up as a tablet
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all of a sudden the the spot where you
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get the stylus now it's a little quirky
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that that's a small nag but it's
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something to think about like if you're
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gonna use it in tablet mode a lot that's
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that's probably something worth noting
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but the stylus works really great it's
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EMR just like Samsung's offerings and
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Acer and probably multiple other people
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its EMR so there's no need for a battery
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and it's small so it can stay inside the
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device and it works like you'd expect it
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to and what we're talking about styluses
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and convertibles and all that kind of
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stuff one thing you need to know about
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the dell is it's really heavy
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now some people look at that as a bad
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thing and some people look at it as a
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good thing I'm kind of on the fence to
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be honest with you because in in the bad
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way it's just flat-out heavy it's almost
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four pounds and yeah it's a 14 inch
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device so it's it's gonna weigh a
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substantial amount but this feels like
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it weighs extra like they put an extra
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like piece of lid in it or something
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like it just feels really heavy but on
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the flip side it feels substantial and
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so there can be heavy like clunky junky
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heavy so there can be just like
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substantial heavy and we haven't really
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talked about the build yet of this
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device and I wanted to hold it
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specifically for this because it is
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heavy but it's really really well built
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it's really well put together and I
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think that has something to do with Dell
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putting Inspiron on the device Inspiron
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has been a brand that Dell has used for
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four years I know at least 10 12 14
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maybe even longer than now I remember
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buying an Inspiron Windows PC I'm it's
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huge big thick monster of a device but
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they were using the Inspiron Brandin
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back then and so for them to actually
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put a Chromebook out that has that
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branding on it it's important because
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it's telling consumers hey we're
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bringing Chrome OS into the fold here
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you know they have the XPS line we
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haven't seen a Chromebook with XPS on it
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yet that's their premium line but they
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make Windows and Linux or obutu versions
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of the XPS line so maybe this is the
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first step and then maybe making like a
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Dell XPS with Chrome OS on or something
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like that but it's important note
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they're putting that branding on there
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that they've reserved only for Windows
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PCs up to this point and now
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we have Chromebooks and so I say all of
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that to say Dell knows how to put
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together a PC they've done it for a long
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long time and so yeah it's a little
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heavy but it's made out of solid
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aluminum and the thing feels like a tank
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so if you're looking for something you
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like that like I like a heavy device
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that feels substantial and I know that I
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have it and it feels just SuperDuper
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solid and I'll share this with you guys
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I actually dropped it off my chair a few
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days ago it hit a wood floor no worse
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for wear whatsoever I mean no dents no
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scratches no nothing
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this thing's gonna hold up because it's
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built really really well and I think
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that is part of them bringing that
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Inspiron Brandin over to this particular
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Chrome boat so we've talked about all
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the exterior parts so what's on the
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inside interestingly Dell only offers
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one configuration of this one and for
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some users they're not gonna like this
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for me and having used it for a little
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bit of time now I really like what
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they've put together here so let's talk
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about what's inside here so you have the
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core i3 so it's an eighth gen KB Lake
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core i3 8130 you processor so blah blah
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blah what does all that mean it actually
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just means that this is the fanned
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version so the kind of the desktop class
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version of this processor and you see it
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in benchmarks this thing gets a 96 on
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speedometer which is pretty dang high if
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you do speedometer 1.0 it gets like a
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140 which is actually off of its what it
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ridges are 160 I'm sorry it off of the
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140 that it registers the thing is fast
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and it's faster than my core i5 7th gen
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pixel book and it gets a octane score of
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33 34 thousand depending on when you run
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it it's really really really fast
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however that processor even though
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somebody people would want a 1 an i-5 or
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I want an i7 trust me with Chrome OS the
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i3 is plenty this thing blazes it's
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really really fast it's paired with 4
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gigs of ram and some of you are going to
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I'm out I don't want that and that's
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fine it's not for everyone and luckily
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for you there's tons of other options
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just like we said at the beginning of
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this video there are a bunch of devices
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in kind of this class that are hitting
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the market right now so you've got some
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other options but this one comes paired
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with 4 gigs of ram and that's the only
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option and I'll be honest with you I
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used to be in the 8th
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of RAM camp I used a pixel book all the
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time it's got eight gigs of RAM so I
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just assumed that's what I need but
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using this and doing all of my work in
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multiple tabs and music players and
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messengers and Android apps and
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everything open I'd really never ran
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into any issue and so while I would like
11:23
eight gigs of RAM for future proofing
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sure I think in general the way that
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Chrome OS is getting better and better
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at handling ram is less and less of an
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issue and the other thing that they'll
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did with this particular model is that
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they paired that those specs with a 128
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gigs of internal storage and yes it's
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emmc
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and we can argue all day about whether
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or not you need a SSD versus emmc versus
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nvme if you don't know what any of those
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things mean it doesn't really matter
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because Chrome OS doesn't necessarily
11:51
need super super fast hard drive speeds
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emmc is actually fast enough when you're
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talking about using a Chromebook on
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Chrome OS and so paired with 128 gigs of
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storage you don't have to worry about SD
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card storage and all that stuff you've
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got plenty of room for all your stuff
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the core i3 blazes and as fast and 4
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gigs of ram is enough to get by on like
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I really didn't notice any issues here
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and so they just put together a really
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compelling package that $5.99 I think
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it's I think it's a good price for this
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device this thing is just an easy easy
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recommendation it checks so many boxes
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and so hopefully we've helped you make a
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purchasing decision with this video and
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with all the stuff that we've talked
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about with this device because it's
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great it's easy to recommend if you
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