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hey pal probably paying with chrome
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unboxed and today we got the chance at
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Google's Hardware event to spend a
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little bit of time with the Google pixel
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book now we've known a lot about this
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device for the last few months he's even
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leaked out just a couple of weeks ago
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that it was going to be called the pixel
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book but there's something about
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actually being in the same room as a
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device and being able to actually use it
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for a few minutes that can't ever be
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translated by leaks or images or commits
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or any of those other things that we
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normally deal with what I can say about
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the pixel book is it is an amazing piece
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of hardware this device is only about 10
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and some change millimeters thick and
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only one kilogram in weight and the
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minute you pick it up you notice that
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it's not just substantially built and an
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attractive device but it's also so thin
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and so light as you bend it around and
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actually put it in the tablet mode it is
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the first device that I've ever put my
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hands on that actually feels like a
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tablet when it's in tablet mode a lot of
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convertibles have all these weird ways
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that they Bend around this one it just
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wasn't made to work like a tablet the
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screen on the device is very bright
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vibrant high resolution probably very
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similar to what's on the Samsung
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Chromebook pro but it's wrapped around
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with bezels that are perfectly
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symmetrical so again when in tablet mode
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it just it looks like a tablet and I
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can't say enough about the way this
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thing feels whenever you pick it up and
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hold it because there's so many
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convertible devices that just don't do
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this part right and the pixel book
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absolutely nails it there's even a
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little magnetic part at the top that
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when you fold it around it actually
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clasps itself together the thing is just
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built perfectly yeah awesome palm rests
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a quiet keyboard a perfect travel
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backlit keys glass trackpad this thing
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has everything you could possibly want
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from a hardware standpoint so thin and
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so light it just feels like a million
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bucks and so what are the prices here
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well it's actually coming in lower than
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so it starts at $9.99 and that comes
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with a cable ache seventh gen Core i5
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eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of
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internal storage the prices go up from
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there but I think honestly that price
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range actually makes it pretty
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competitive for the hardware we're
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talking about getting here but really we
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don't want to get bogged down in a bunch
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of specs here we've been talking about
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the specs for this device for some time
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it is lacking one thing that we hoped it
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would have which is a fingerprint
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scanner and according to Google they
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just couldn't get the layout or the
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behavior quite right to include it here
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hopefully we'll see that some point down
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the road but other than that everything
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we expected this device to be it pretty
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much is and overall like I said we don't
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want to get bogged down with specs I
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want to talk to you about how awesome
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this thing feels and looks in person and
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it really is something to behold
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it comes if you choose equipped with a
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pin and the pin is not just another
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stylist it actually has quite a few
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tricks up its sleeve as well it's a full
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size pin so it's not gonna actually stow
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away inside the device anywhere looks
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like there's going to be a sleeve
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sometime down the road that will
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actually have a spot to put it but
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there's a button on the side of the pin
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too that allows you to hold and invoke
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the Google assistant by circling things
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on the screen and it can actually look
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up stuff contextually based on what you
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circle additionally on the keyboard now
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we have the Google assistant buttons and
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as we could tell from the event today
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Google assistant is at the core of
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pretty much everything Google is doing
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and they made it pretty clear it's about
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AI first with hardware and software and
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the pixel book lines up perfectly with
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all those things we really look forward
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to the coming months where we get to
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spend time with this thing where we
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actually get to use it on a daily basis
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and tell you about how good it is or how
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bad it is and it seems like it's gonna
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be really good at pretty much everything
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that you want to do with it but until we
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get one in the office we can't
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definitively say how well it performs or
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does any of these things all I can tell
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you is that from spending a little bit
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of time with it today it's spending time
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talking with the chrome OS team that
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helped build this thing over the past
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year this thing looks really really
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solid and at $9.99 I think this is going
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to be a device that could change some of
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of what chrome books can be and public
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awareness and consumer awareness around
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Chromebooks moving forward guys if you
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description and until next time we'll
