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Hands-On With The World's First Qualcomm Snapdragon Chromebook: The Acer Spin 513
Oct 21, 2020
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You read that right! We have our hands on the world's first Chromebook powered by the Snapdragon 7c from Qualcomm. Thought this device won't debut for a few months at this point, there's still a lot to love about what we've already been able to test and we want to share those first impressions with you all.
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we are so excited the event just wrapped
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up with acer and they talked about a lot
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of stuff
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but most importantly to us they unveil
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the world's first
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snapdragon powered chromebook in the
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acer chromebook
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spin 513. so let's go hands-on real
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quick
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all right so we're going to do a quick
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walk around this device again this is
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the first chromebook with a snapdragon
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processor in it specifically it's the
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snapdragon 7c
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that going all the way back to last year
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we've expected to see
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a chromebook with this processor in it
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we're expecting quite a few of them
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actually and this happens to be the
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first one
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that we're getting some hands-on time
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with and acer was nice enough to send
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this device over to us a little bit
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before the event so that we could have
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this video ready
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uh to drop as soon as their event was
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finished up with but ultimately it's
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not going to be out for a few months so
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at this point we can't really test a lot
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of the software stuff i mean it's this
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is early this is way pre-production here
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but this gives us an idea of what it's
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going to feel like to have a chromebook
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with a snapdragon processor in it and so
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let's take a look around this thing real
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quick
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and the main thing that you're going to
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notice uh the first time you do get your
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hands on this thing
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is the fact that it is insanely thin and
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insanely light and i don't know if that
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comes across
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on camera or not i know some of the
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images we got early on with this thing
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it didn't feel it didn't look like it
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was going to be like crazy thin
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but it just feels so ridiculously
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portable
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uh it's hard to explain but picking it
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up i think it's about two
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and a half to two point six pounds
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something like that you pick it up and
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just you're immediately struck with a
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how thin it feels and how light it feels
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so
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it just screams portability and that's a
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good thing because arm powered
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chromebooks
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are going to have awesome battery life
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so this one they're touting around 14
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hours of
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of use so that's obviously a really
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strong number there
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this device will come equipped with the
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ability to upgrade to an lte package so
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you'll be able to have
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wireless connectivity on here if you
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don't have wi-fi around up to 128 gigs
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of nvme storage i'm sorry not nvme mmc
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storage and eight gigs of ram up two so
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there's going to be a model with four
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gigs
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and a model with 64 gigs of internal
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storage you also get some really nice
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ports
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around the sides so obviously we have
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volume rocker and power
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we've got a usb type-c port for all the
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normal stuff there
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and then you've got another usb type-c
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over here the usb type-a which is
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awesome again to see on a thin
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and light device just helps with that
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backwards compatibility
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headphone microphone jack and there's
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the slot for the lte
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again we can't test a lot of this stuff
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because this is a pre-production unit
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but what i can tell you is that this all
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aluminum build
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this thing feels fantastic and
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again it looks great too and there's
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part of me that just expected the first
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snapdragon 7c chromebook we got to be an
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all plastic affair
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to be something affordable because the
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7c is not their top-end chip
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from qualcomm so i just kind of assumed
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that this would be in an affordable
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package
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and this is anything but you got a nice
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chamfered edge hopefully
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that's picking up on camera all the way
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around here so that chamfered aluminum
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it just
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looks sleek it feels nice it's well put
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together like it doesn't feel flimsy
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i'm super impressed i mean i can't tell
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you how impressed i am the minute i got
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this thing out
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and opened it up and i think we can get
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away with almost
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a one finger lift it's got a really
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strong magnet there
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not quite but it's got a nice lift and
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the hinge kind of lifts up the back of
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the device a little bit
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uh and ultimately it just looks
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fantastic on the desk we have an all
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glass track pad here
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uh acer has been building much nicer
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keyboards of late
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nice and quiet but it's got a great
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click to it feels fantastic
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backlit keys a 1080p screen that gets
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nice and bright i want to say
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pushing 300 nits as we've been able to
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kind of look at it and test
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and assuming that this is the same panel
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that ends up shipping on this device
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plenty brightness here a great keyboard
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backlit keys
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glass trackpad aluminum build it's a 360
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degree device obviously so it flips
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around into all the mode you'd expect it
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to
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uh including tablet mode there's plans
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for usi pen support where
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again this is pre-production we haven't
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been able to test that but
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hopefully that will come along uh on
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board as well
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i mean you're looking at a complete
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package here and assuming the
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the qualcomm snapdragon 7c that's inside
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this thing
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performs the way that we would expect it
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to perform
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it's going to be the fastest arm powered
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chromebook that we've ever seen
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and again crazy battery life you're
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going to be able to rock you know
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nice high brightness on your screen
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and do all kinds of stuff connected with
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lte it's going to make for an awesome
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package and this thing has us really
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excited not just for this device
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but for the other arm powered snapdragon
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7c
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chromebooks that we're expecting to see
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in the coming months but acer
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again like they tend to do is the first
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one out of the gate to be able to hand
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us a device and say look
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we've built it we've made it we knew
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that they were coming
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here it is in the flesh and we're
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excited over the next few months as they
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kind of put the finishing touches on
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this thing
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to see what the end product is going to
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be like and oh
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the price is pretty right too so for
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that entry level model again this is the
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128 gig version with eight gigs of ram
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there's a 64 gig version with four gigs
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of ram that's going to come in
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starting at 399 dollars so again at 399
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we're talking a bright 1080p panel 13.3
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inches here
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a backlit keyboard a glass trackpad an
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all-aluminum build
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a convertible device that's thin it's
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light and has 14 hours of battery life i
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mean
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this thing is a win all around and then
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it's coming in at a price that's
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already competitive and assuming again
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we have to assume some things on how
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this thing's going to perform
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from a speed standpoint assuming it
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performs the way that we're expecting it
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to
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this thing is just going to be an
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absolute knockout when it launches early
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in 2021 so
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be on the lookout for that as this thing
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nears uh
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its actual arrival time we'll obviously
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be doing a review of this thing and
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be able to unbox the the actual
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packaging and all that kind of stuff
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but we were just excited that acer was
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able to send this over to us we were
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excited to get the email and know that
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finally
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finally after almost three years of
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waiting we finally have
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a snapdragon powered chromebook and it's
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really here
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it's really a thing and it's going to be
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exciting to see how this thing performs
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both on the chrome os side
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and on the android side but guys that's
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