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in the world of mid-range Chromebooks it
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looks like 2018 is gonna go out with a
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bang and I want to define that that kind
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of spectrum there so mid-range
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Chromebooks in my head range somewhere
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from 500 to 750 dollars and where that
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space was a little bit empty just six
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months ago it's filling up rapidly as we
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kind of close out 2018 and one of the
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devices that you're gonna see on shelves
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in Best Buy's is this new dell inspiron
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Chromebook 14 now what's really
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significant about this particular device
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is that Dell instead of just saying the
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Dell Chromebook whatever and giving it
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some kind of random model they've
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actually applied one of their
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long-standing brain names to this device
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Inspiron and if you've been around pcs
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for any amount of time you know that
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dell has made the Inspiron line of PC
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for a long time and so the fact that
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they're kind of starting to group
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Chromebooks into this so that when
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consumers go and they go oh I'm getting
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an Inspiron cool I've read about those
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and I've seen those or I've owned one
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before I kind of know what to expect
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from a hardware standpoint Dell now is
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saying okay well if you like that device
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there's also one with Chrome OS that's a
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Chromebook too so you're gonna get the
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same kind of build quality here you're
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gonna get the same kind of long-standing
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attention to detail that Dell puts into
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the Inspiron line and it's gonna run
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Chrome OS instead so I've had this
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device just for about a day now I've
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used it for about 36 hours actually as
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my only device I've worked from it and
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done all that kind of stuff so we wanted
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to give you a quick first impressions of
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the dell inspiron Chromebook 14 before
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we get into that this video is brought
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audibletrial.com/preneurcast couple
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impressions on this device because
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they're really good and just like they
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were with the Acer Chromebook spin the
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13-inch model there there's just a lot
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to like and I think it's gonna be the
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case with all the other ones that are
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coming out in this kind of mid-range
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sector for Chromebooks at the end of
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this year I just think there's going to
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be a lot to like and it's going to be
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difficult to make a decision so as we
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move through these things hopefully
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there's something that stands out to you
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that says yeah I think of the group this
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one is the the better one for me to
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purchase and before we even open this
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one up as far as specs go I think
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Della's put together probably the best
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combo total for everything on offer for
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the price and so right now you can get
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this thing for $5.99 at Best Buy and for
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right from Dell as well and I'm sure
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it'll show up at different places too
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but for that $5.99 you're getting pretty
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much all the boxes checked so you're
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getting the core i3 the 8th gen u series
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so it is fanned but I haven't heard
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other than when it starts up I haven't
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heard any fan noise whatsoever from it
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but you're getting the core i3 paired
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with 4 gigs and 128 gigs of internal
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storage let's remember that because
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there are lots of models of these other
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ones that come with much less and so
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you're getting hundreds of storage
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you're also getting a stowable stylus
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you're getting a full HD probably 300
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plus NIT brightness screen it looks
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great and we're gonna look at all that
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stuff here in just second but I wanted
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to mention all those specs because I
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feel like Dell has put together probably
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the most compelling overall package
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again we've still got reviews to do with
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all these other ones and I may change my
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mind at some point in the future but for
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right now as I'm just kind of having my
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first time with this device I'm just
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really really impressed it's an all
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aluminum body there's just a lot of good
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stuff going on here and so one other
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thing I wanted to point out with this
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one is that the charging brick a lot of
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times people comment on this a lot when
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we do in boxing's or first impressions
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like oh man I saw it's not just a normal
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like a block style charging brick it's
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the big long you know plug the extra
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piece in and this one is that I'm a fan
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of of having these though an apple for
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instance does that so you have a charge
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in block that can be detached and that
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court can be added because those those
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blocks take up a lot of room when you're
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talking about putting it in a wall but
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you've got this normal kind of setup
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here then it's USBC obviously but it's a
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nice small brick and it is set up
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actually out of the out of the box like
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this and it's wound up like this and so
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that packs away really nicely so let's
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take a look around this device again
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like I said it's all aluminum so there's
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no like plastic edges and stuff like
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that there's some sharpness
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two parts of it so it's not like the
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most premium perfectly put together
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device and it's heavy I mean it's a good
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pound at least more than say the pixel
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book or something like that so I mean
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you pick it up and you'll notice that
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this thing is heavy but it's okay it
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feels substantial it feels well built
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and well put together and again this is
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built from the same stuff that Dell has
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built the other it's ver on devices you
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know four years from and so they know
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how to put a computer together pretty
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well you'll notice there are some fan
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ports and that kind of stuff and that's
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again this is a you serious processor so
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it does need a fan that also means it
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actually has a lot more performance
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under the hood and so speaking of under
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the hood the the screen on this thing is
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a full HD pretty standard 1920 by 1080
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so there's no extra weird ratios going
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on here it's not tall or anything like
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that
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it's it's just a standard sixteen by
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nine Full HD screen but it gets plenty
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bright and at 14 inches Full HD looks
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great in Chrome OS scales perfectly
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in-house so you can actually you know
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scale it up just a couple notches to
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make sure everything's nice and readable
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on the screen and it still looks clean
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and crisp and if you get real close you
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can pixel peep and pick out a few pixels
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but overall I've been really really
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really happy with the display for me
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when I put a display underneath my
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normal big screen that I kind of work
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from it looks really good it's really
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colorful it's bright it's vibrant and so
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if I put kind of a mediocre screen
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underneath of it it's really bothersome
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because I'm not just looking at this
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screen I'm looking at this screen next
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to a nice screen and so this one is held
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up just fine brightness is really good I
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would estimate somewhere between 300 350
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nits something like that but it looks
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great a front-facing camera does kind of
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what you'd expect it to do it's a 720p
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thing but if we move down and start
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talking about the keyboard it's backlit
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so again like I said this thing checks a
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lot of boxes I don't think the trackpad
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is glass I'm not really sure but I've
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noticed some oils building up on it as
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the day wore on and so usually a glass
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trackpad can go days before you really
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have to wipe them off that being said it
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performs really really well it's nice
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and spacious it feels really good the
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click mechanism is really good again
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this thing just kind of feels like a
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tank it's just really well built and put
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together a surprising piece on it so far
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cranked up some music and it sounded
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really awesome it's got a nice full
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sound to it even though their bottom
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firing speakers
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really have enjoyed listening to some
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some stuff for videos and that kind of
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thing and just just rain to music I
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don't listen to laptop speakers that
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much but it's a nice perk when they
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sound really good port selection is also
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really good and you're gonna see the
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same things as some of these mid-range
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Chromebooks come out they're based on
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the same baseboard after all but you
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have a USBC on both sides both sides can
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charge both sides can do output video
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and all that kind of stuff so that works
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really well for my setup but you also
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get the addition of a USB a port on the
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side as well
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which is really nice because everybody
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hates dongles so being able to just plug
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in an SD card reader or being able to
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plug in a thumb drive or something like
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that it's just nice not to go have to
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hunt down a dongle in order to get that
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done so I think Dell has put together
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just a really good package thus far and
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the the core i3 I mean benchmarked it
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yet it's been so good I haven't even had
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to wonder about it it's it's with
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multiple monitor setups it's just flying
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and everything feels really good and
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you'll probably notice as I said in the
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specs just a minute ago has a ton of
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storage but only four gigs of RAM and
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again I know some people get really been
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in a shape about RAM and if you're gonna
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run a bunch of Linux applications maybe
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that's a concession you got to really
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think of but for my use case what I
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found probably in the last year honestly
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is that four gigs of ram with Chrome OS
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seems to be plenty and so I would rather
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err on the side of having lots more
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storage especially as Android apps and
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Linux apps and all this kind of stuff
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are flowing down I want to have plenty
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of room to put stuff and so I would I
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would venture to say that hundred twenty
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eight gigs of storage is probably more
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beneficial your use case may differ but
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what I found so far
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performance has not has not lacked at
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all because of four gigs of RAM there
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and let's not forget underneath here
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there is a stowable stylus and so while
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I wouldn't say this is a device that you
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would want to flip into tablet mode too
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often because a sixteen by nine so it's
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kind of got that long ratio when you
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hold it this way it almost feels
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completely ridiculous but if you're in a
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plane you can set it up in tent mode no
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problem it doesn't take up much space
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while you're watching a film if you want
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to go into presentation mode then that
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works as well so there's a lot of
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different ways you can use convertibles
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that don't really rely on it being a
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good tablet and this is not a good
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tablet it's way too heavy a way too
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thick just way too substantial to be
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walking around holding it like a tablet
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but that doesn't mean that the
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vertebral forms are useless they're
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actually pretty useful in a meeting I
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had this morning actually actually had
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to jot some notes down so using squid
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with the included pin works really
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really well so I read a lot of good
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stuff to say and I can't wait to spend
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some more time with this device and get
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the full review and maybe be able to
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tell you hey turned out four gigs of ram
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is not enough so they'll did everything
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right except give you an 8 gig option
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because they don't this comes in one
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configuration and this is it no
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different processors no different
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storage no different Ram Dell said hey
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this is our Chromebook here you go and
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thus far I feel like they're nailing it
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but keep it locked to the channel and
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we'll have the review up hopefully
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pretty soon and if you like this one
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