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In a tech world where devices come and go every year, we want to offer up 5 reason why the Pixelbook is still worth your money a full year after its release.
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just over a year ago Google introduced
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this the pixel book and it was a little
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divisive back then when it came out at
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$1,000 it was a Chromebook that was
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looked at as expensive and maybe a
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little crazy for Google to put out but I
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can tell you after using it for over a
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year now despite having every Chromebook
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at our disposal pretty much in the
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office this is the device I always come
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back to and so what we want to do today
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is give you five reasons why the pixel
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book is still worth it especially now
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when it seems like you can find sales on
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this device left and right and if you're
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watching this around the Black Friday
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timeframe it's gonna be 700 bucks for
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the entry-level model and so at that
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price I think there are some compelling
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reasons why you should consider getting
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a pixel book for yourself so reason
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number one the display while it shares
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the same display as the Samsung
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Chromebook Pro Plus an HP Chromebook x2
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all of those devices have great displays
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and it's part of the joy of using any of
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them now with the pixel book its paired
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with all of the pixel books other
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hardware which we're going to talk about
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in a second and so it just makes for a
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really really compelling use case
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because as a user you're staring at the
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screen most of the time and so this one
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is just a joy to use
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at a three by two ratio it works really
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well in tablet mode and overall it just
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makes using the pixel book a great
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overall experience I mean you can see
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look at this thing pixel dense color
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accurate it's just really really fun to
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use
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alright reason number two the keyboard
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and trackpad and this might be reason
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enough all on its own the keyboard
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whatever
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voodoo magic they put in here to make
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this thing work I have not typed on
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another keyboard that I love as much as
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this one no joke any keyboard I go to
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whether it's a third-party keyboard or
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any other Chromebook or Windows Device
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or Mac or anything else that I go to
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after I've been typing on this for the
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day always feel subpar I love this
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keyboard the travel is just good enough
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the click is awesome it's backlit it
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just it they they outdid themselves with
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the keyboard and the trackpad the same
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is it better than say a MacBook or
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something like that no but it's on par
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it's that etched glass it feels really
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great the travels right the click sounds
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good
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everything's just great about the input
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methods on this device and after a year
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of using this specific one I haven't
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traded these things out I've been using
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this one everything feels great still
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it's held up to a year's worth of wear
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of using every single day and so I can't
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say enough good things about the
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keyboard and trackpad on the pixel book
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number three exclusivity now if you've
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never owned a pixel book but say you've
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owned one of the pixel phones you know
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that Google tends to give priority to
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its own devices and as a made by Google
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product this one has that special key
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the assistant key which brings up the
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assistant lets you do all of those voice
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queries lets you check stuff on your
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screen and does all those kind of fun
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things yes that are eventually going to
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come to other Chromebooks but this one's
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had it for a year I've had the assistant
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on my device for a year I can type
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questions to it I can ask questions to
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it and it's just been kind of cool to
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have that feature and as more features
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roll out as new things come out as they
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want to try different stuff they're
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always gonna try it here first and so
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it's kind of cool to have that
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exclusivity and get the first new things
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at Google rolls out number four build
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quality specifically the thinness and
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likeness of this device and just the way
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it's put together I mean when I hold it
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up you can just see to hold a laptop
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that is this thin it's still even a year
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later I pick it up sometimes I'm like
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man this thing is just really really
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well built I love the way it feels in my
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hand I love the way the edges meet
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perfectly when I fold it into tablet
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mode I love the fact that when I hold it
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up as a laptop it looks absolutely
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unique the glass top here the the white
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bars here and there nothing looks like
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this nothing looks like a pixel book
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nothing feels like a pixel book and
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sorry to all of you Mac fans out there I
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would take this build quality over
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literally any other laptop on the market
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right now it just is so well put
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together and it's held up to so much
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wear and tear for me and my kids and
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other people at the office
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and we even have a few of these at the
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office now because people have looked at
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it and thought man I just I like the way
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it looks I like the way it works I like
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the way the whole ecosystem comes
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together and so build quality is
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important and the pixel book just really
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pulls it off and lastly number five the
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intangibles so I've talked about the
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screen and the keyboard and the trackpad
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and the build quality and the way it
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looks unique and all of those things and
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all that stuff tangible
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can specifically point to it and say
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here's why this is good or here's why
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this is better than something else but
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intangible things are things that we
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can't really explain
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they're just those things that when we
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go to pick up or use a device we just
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like it better just because and the
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pixel book excels at this we have a lot
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of Chromebooks that come through this
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office I try a lot of different devices
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we have lots of MacBooks flowing around
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we have macros we have all sorts of tech
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and cool gadgets and stuff that float
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through our office and I can tell you
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that using this device every time I pick
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it up there's something compelling about
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it that makes me want to go back and use
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it again it doesn't matter what new
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Chromebook shows up I always want to go
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back to my pixel book and sometimes sure
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it's well I just want my keyboard back
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err
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I just want to see that display again
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but most times I can't even really say
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why it is it's not even the most
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powerful Chromebook we have in the
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office right now we've got a couple that
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benchmark over it and probably perform
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faster than it does and yet when I'm
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done with my review period I come
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running back to my pixel book it's the
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intangibles it's hard to put a price tag
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on those things it's hard to put a label
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on those things it's just something
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about the way this thing was built and
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put together that make me really really
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love using it to the point that even
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though the pixel slate is right around
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the corner and we know it'll be out soon
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and we'll be trying it and I've already
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purchased one and I'm coming in and I
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can't wait to mess with it there's part
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of me that's a little bit afraid that
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even after I use it for a little bit I'm
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gonna come running back to this thing
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and that's a weird thing to say because
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usually I just like the newest latest
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greatest most shiny thing but there is
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something about this device that causes
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me to always want to go back to it so I
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hope these five things have helped you
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kind of decide well I've been on the
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fence and I'm not sure if I want a pixel
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book or not or is it still worth it
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after a whole year it's not the newest
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thing on the block anymore it may not be
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the newest thing anymore but I can tell
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you if you like Chrome OS and you want a
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Chromebook and you want a fantastic
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device it's easy I'm gonna point you to
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this one and if you're watching this
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anywhere in the proximity the Black
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Friday I can tell you Google along with
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probably Amazon and Best Buy and who
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knows who else is gonna be selling the
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sync for
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$6.99 for the bass one the i58 gig and
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so it'll be $300 off on all levels and
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so at 700 bucks this is an easy easy
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recommendation to anybody who is
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interested in the Chromebook ecosystem
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so guys I hope that's helped you make
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some sort of purchasing decision I hope
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this one's been helpful if it has been
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give it a thumbs up hit that subscribe
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see you
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