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I get asked quite often, “Which Chromebook should I buy?” In many ways, I’m humbled that people trust me to help them make this decision. In other ways, I’m at a loss to help. For many people, they’ve decided to get a Chromebook because of marketing or because their child wants one or because they’ve been told to by someone who is tired of providing family tech support.
After answering this single question so many times over the years, I’ve actually come up with a pretty simple line of comeback questions that help me assist people in making the right decision for themselves. After all, the landscape of Chromebooks is rapidly changing and evolving. Not only are there new devices, there are price fluctuations that are too big not to make a massive difference in someone’s purchase decision. In a market like that, there’s no single answer to the question, but there are better ways for potential buyers to better discern what is best for them at any given time.
So, let’s go through those questions I ask to every person who asks me about which Chromebook to buy. My hope is that after you’ve thought through these five questions, you’ll be fully equipped to walk into Best Buy or surf over to Amazon and sort out what devices work best for your needs.
1.) Is a Chromebook even a good fit for you?
2.) What sort of form factor fits your needs?
3.) How concerned are you with quality and feel?
4.) What are your expectations when you open the lid (screen/keyboard/trackpad)?
5.) Are you a power user or casual one?
Read more: https://chromeunboxed.com/which-chromebook-buying-help-choices-5-questions
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of the course of the last few years I've
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been asked the question which Chromebook
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should I buy by a multitude of people
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and whether it's email correspondence or
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social media or neighbors or friends or
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family members I'm honestly really
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humbled that people actually asked me on
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advice when going to buy a device like a
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Chromebook but the problem is there's
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not just a simple answer for everybody
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there's not just one Chromebook to go
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get or even a couple Chromebooks that I
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would recommend it comes down to their
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particular needs and what's gonna fit
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them best and so I've kind of come up
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with five questions that I can ask
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people whenever they come to me and say
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I want to get the best Chromebook I ask
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them these five questions and as they
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answer those questions that helps inform
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their purchasing decisions so I want to
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question number one is a Chromebook even
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right for you kids come home from school
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and they have Chromebooks assigned to
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them and parents see them and maybe even
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mess around with a little bit and think
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wow this is a pretty cool computer and
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they look online pretty quickly and see
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that there are wide price varieties and
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a lot of low-end cheap Chromebooks out
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there and so immediately they think I
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need a new computer maybe I'll get one
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of those Chromebooks and they don't
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really understand exactly what they're
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looking at so if you're one of those
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people this is the first question I
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would ask you is a Chromebook a right
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fit for you and the easiest way you can
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figure out whether that's true or not is
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to use your existing MacBook or Windows
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laptop or whatever it is you're using
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and use the Chrome browser and try to
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stay inside that Chrome browser for
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everything you need to do for like a
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week or something like that if if an app
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exists outside of the Chrome browser try
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to find a web version or equivalent or
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look around and see if there's an
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Android app even if you don't have an
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Android phone just to see if there's an
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Android app version of the thing that
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you need on a daily
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if that's the case then a Chromebook
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could be a right fit for you but if
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there's certain apps you need like
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Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator or
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something like that or you're making
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movies and you're trying to edit video
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on a Chromebook you're just going to get
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frustrated it's not going to be a good
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fit so this is the first step to trying
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to figure out whether or not you should
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go through the process of deciding on a
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Chromebook is it even the right thing
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for you to do question number two what
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kind of a form factor is going to be
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right for you so just like with Windows
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devices you're gonna have all kinds of
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form factors meaning their Chromebooks
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that come in the form of detachable x'
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and just tablets and convertibles and
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just clamshells and then we have Chrome
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basis so like all in one machines and
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then you have chrome boxes that you
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would hook to a monitor so there's a
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wide variety of form factors that you
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need to think through and decide for
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yourself how am I actually going to use
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this Chromebook so you already decided
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Chrome OS is good for me I can get stuff
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done in this operating system in this
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web driven environment cool that's great
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what are you going to do with it are you
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gonna be at a desk all the time maybe a
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15-inch device with more screen real
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estate it's gonna be a better fit for
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you or you're on the go all the time and
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something light and slim is better for
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you well maybe a convertible or
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something in the 12 inch form factor is
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going to be better for you or hey I need
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to be able to write and take notes all
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the time well you need to think through
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that because there are certain ones that
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have pins and certain ones that don't so
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you need to answer all of these
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questions too and say okay what thing do
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I actually want my Chromebook to do
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question number three how concerned are
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you with overall feel and quality are
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you someone who picks up devices and
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just loves the way things feel when
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they're made in a premium way and you
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care deeply about that or are laptops
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and electronic devices simply tools to
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get a job done and you want to check it
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to the side when it's done you need to
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know this about yourself you need to
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decide this because again Chromebooks
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come in a wide variety of form factors
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and build qualities and so you may have
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decided already Chrome OS is fine with
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me and a Chromebook is going to do what
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I need it to do and I need a convertible
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I need something's gonna flip around so
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I can use it tablet mode everyone smile
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that's great there are ones that are
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made cheaply and all out of plastic and
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they're clunky and heavy and don't look
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great and then there are really really
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nice ones like a pixel book for instance
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that is engineered to the top spec and
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it
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a beautiful piece of hardware you're
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gonna pay more for that engineered piece
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of hardware and you're gonna pay less
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for the one that doesn't feel quite as
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good that decisions on you to decide
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okay I've kind of narrowed it down a
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little bit this is what I'm after now
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you need to think through how important
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is build quality to you and think
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through those things so you need to be
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looking for stuff like aluminum chassis
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glass screens glass trackpad it's
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backlit keys those nicer kind of
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creature comforts that some of us care
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deeply about myself included and some of
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us don't really care about it all it's a
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place where you could possibly save
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yourself some money question number four
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what are you expecting when you open the
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lid of the device and the reason I put
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it that way is because I'm talking about
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all the stuff like that's on the inside
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of the clamshell so whenever you go to
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open up a device you got screen trackpad
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and keyboard and the reason I put those
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things together is because they're
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probably to me the most important parts
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of using a Chromebook or any other
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laptop for that matter you're always
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staring at the screen you're constantly
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going to be looking at it you're always
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going to be inputting with the keyboard
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and you're always going to be inputting
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with the trackpad everything else is hit
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or miss whether or not you have to use
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it those three things you're going to
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use every single time you pick the
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device up and so again you need to
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decide for yourself
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our backlit keys important is a great
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keyboard important or do you not really
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care too much do you just kind of poke
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at the keys think about those things
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there's a glass trackpad matter cuz
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glass trackpad czar smoother and more
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responsive and they feel better again
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they cost more but if it doesn't matter
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to you if you don't care you're gonna
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hook in a mouse all the time that's
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another thing you need to think about
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the screen resolution and color and and
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viewing angles those things matter to
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you because I've shown terrible screens
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to certain people and they don't seem to
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care that much I care deeply about those
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things but not everybody's going to need
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to know for instance whether a viewing
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angle that's poor and colors that are
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blown out are going to turn you off
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completely from a device or if you're
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just kind of kind of look past it and
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get on with it because again the things
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that you don't have to have you don't
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necessarily need you may be able to save
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yourself some money if you can kind of
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just avoid those things and say yeah I
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don't have to have the best screen and I
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don't have to have a glass trackpad and
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he'd probably suffice with a cheaper
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Chromebook finally fifth question we've
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gotten to the point where said yep you
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can
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a Chromebook that'll work for you and
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we've talked about build quality and
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we've talked about keyboards and track
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pads and we've talked about form factors
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and all those things you've kind of got
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your brain around like okay here's where
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I'm at the last thing you really need to
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think through is the internals and how
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powerful the Chromebooks gonna be
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because again these things will inform
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price it's not always that the most
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powerful Chrome OS devices always have
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the highest price tags that's just not
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the case but in general you're gonna pay
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a little bit more for a more beefy
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processor and so you need to think
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through again what are you going to be
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using this Chromebook for this chrome
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box of this chrome base is it going to
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be getting on Facebook and answering
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some email because if so the entry-level
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processors that Intel puts out right now
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these Gemini lakes so you'll see a in
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4,000 for instance they're fine there
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they're actually really good processors
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and they're gonna do most normal work
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but are you getting into some graphic
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stuff are you gonna be you know doing
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some vector graphic work or editing
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photos and even something like google
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photos or Lightroom or something like
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that well you might want a little bit
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more processing power and as you get
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into more photos and stuff like that
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where you're going to be working with
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multiple things at once then you
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probably want a little bit more RAM or
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user type of person that opens 50 tabs
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at a time and that's just the way you
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are and you're always going to be that
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way and you don't want to change your
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habits you need to think about RAM you
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need to have more RAM in your Chromebook
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so really think through how you're going
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to use your Chromebook the type of user
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that you are or the person you're buying
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the Chromebook for and think you know
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they really push machines they're going
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to be doing things that general people
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are going to be doing yeah you need a
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better processor you need to go with the
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core i3 or i5 processors Chromebooks
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that have those kind of processors in
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them but if they're just someone that's
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gonna check email and go on Facebook the
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night that worried about that get get
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the thing that's most affordable and
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that makes more sense for you so now
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that you've gone through all the
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questions and said okay I think I have a
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good idea of what kind of Chromebook I'd
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like to get or what would be best for me
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or the person I'm buying it for now what
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do you do well this video is that made
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to tell you exactly what Chromebook you
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should buy as a matter of fact you might
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be watching this video a few months from
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the time we're filming it and there
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could be a whole slew of Chromebooks out
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that we don't even know about at this
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given moment so this isn't to tell you
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exactly what Chromebook to go by right
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now by using some sort of formula it's
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to help you make a purchasing decision
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based
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tools that are out in the market right
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now every shop you go to has filters you
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have the ability to go to the sidebar
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and change the screen size on the
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devices you're looking at the amount of
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RAM the amount of storage the resolution
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of the screens so take all the stuff
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that you just answered as we were going
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through this video and you said yeah I
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need a 15 inch convertible with a pen I
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don't know that that one exists right
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now but if you were you went to those
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filters and you selected those things it
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would tell you like there's not one
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available like that so you can kind of
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change the things that you need or want
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and find the Chromebooks that are right
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for you the whole point of this is to
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help you be a better more informed
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shopper of Chromebooks and then
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additionally there are reviews I mean
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that's why we review Chromebooks in
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general is so that you guys can compare
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these things side by side but reviews
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aren't enough by themselves to help you
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decide whether or not to buy a
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Chromebook if you have no idea what
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you're looking at so use all the
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questions I had earlier in this video
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use those filters to see which ones that
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might work for you after you've kind of
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narrowed it all down and then see if
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we've had a review of that device we try
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to review everything that we possibly
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can and if we do then maybe you watch a
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couple reviews of you've narrowed it
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down to two or three devices watch those
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reviews and go okay build quality for
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instance is super important to me and he
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said that this one feels the best of all
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of them well there you go now you've
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narrowed it down to three you watch one
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review and you pick that one that's what
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we're kind of trying to help you guys do
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here it's just make more informed better
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purchasing decisions with the tools that
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are available right now at your disposal
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