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hey what's up everybody uh today we're
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talking chrome boxes more specifically
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upgrading chrome boxes uh we're gonna
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take the ctl apart
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show you just how easy it is to upgrade
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the ram in one of these uh new
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generation of chrome boxes so
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let's dive right in
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[Music]
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before we tear down this chrome box
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let's talk for a second about tools uh
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having the proper tools for a job like
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this
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makes all the difference in the world
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and i recommend you go out you can pick
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out
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one of these kits like this on amazon
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best buy wherever for about 20 bucks
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it has all of your tips it's going to
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have all your pry tools and
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more importantly it's going to have this
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this is a grounding strap
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i've joked about these in the past and i
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get a lot of flack about them
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but you do need to wear a grounding
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strap i have borked more than one device
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because i did not wear one of these
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all this does is neutralize the charge
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between you and the device that you're
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working on and yes you need to use it
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and yes you need to use it every time
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because the first time you do not
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you will fry the motherboard on your
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computer and then you don't have a
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computer
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so that said i'm going to put this on
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and we're going to take this chrome box
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apart
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all right grounding straps on we're
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ready to go for this
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i have a 4 gig stick of samsung ram this
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is ddr3 you can use ddr4 these newer
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chrome boxes can handle that just fine
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just make sure you're getting a 204 pin
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i recommend crucial
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simply because it's a little cheaper and
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they actually have a chrome box section
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on their site so you know you're going
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to get
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a stick of ram that's going to fit this
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is a ctl
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celeron 5205 so it's a comet lake with 4
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gigs of ram
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and we're going to show you just how
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easy it is to add an extra 4 gigs
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you can go all the way up to 32 if you
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want it's a little overkill for a
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celeron if you have the i7 model and you
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want to do that
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the process is going to be exactly the
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same so let's get started
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you flip the device over and on the
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bottom you're going to notice there are
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two rubberized feet here they're
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self-adhesive so you just need
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a little pry bar plastic pry tool like
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this it came in the kit that we
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purchased
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you're just going to want to pry these
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up and they will peel right off
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just set those aside the cool thing
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about this
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is there are only eight screws to take
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apart and they are all identical you
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don't have to worry about whether or not
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your screws are separated or
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you you get a mismatch or whatever i'm
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using the
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screwdriver from our kit this is a 2.5
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phillips
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found that that fits perfectly on these
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i'm just going to take these four screws
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out of the base
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i didn't forget about the grounding
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strap we'll get there in just a second
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all right so you're going to take these
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four screws out
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set those aside if you have a static pad
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or something like that where you can set
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your screws that's even better
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this base should pop right off if it
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doesn't you can pry it open with the pry
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tool
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and then you're going to see a metal
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plate here on the bottom
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now is a good time to get your grounding
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strap and just find some bare metal on
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the device
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i'll go ahead and let you know up front
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i have the power supply disconnected on
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this one so it's not that big of a deal
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but you're going to want to find just a
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piece of bare metal on the inside not
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painted metal painted metal is not going
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to ground because it's painted
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clip that to that out of sight out of
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mind you're ready to go
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we have four more screws in the same
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place let's go ahead and take those four
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screws out
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and once you get them out just be
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careful you don't want to just
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yank this thing out it has all of your
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ports on it and there
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is one wire that is connected to this
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base and if you yank it out you might
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break it and you don't want to do that
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because then
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you're going to be buying a new chrome
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box ctl does customize their chrome
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boxes you can order this celeron and
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upgrade the ram there
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and it's not that expensive but if
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you're a tinkerer or if you buy one and
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you just decide down the road you want
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some more ram
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you could do it yourself or if you just
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want to save a little bit of money so
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just pry that
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piece up and move it out of the way
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if you want you can actually slide this
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off
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and take this completely out of the way
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it's not that big of a deal if you don't
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want to
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i find it's easier just to set it aside
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the only difference between this model
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and the previous model is this this is
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just a
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metal heat shield that sits over top of
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the ram there's
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four fins that it slides down into so
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you literally can just grab it
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and pull it straight off another reason
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why you do want to have the grounding
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strap because you're taking a chance on
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metal touching metal
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do be careful when you pop it out
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because the power supply actually mounts
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to the board right here i haven't moved
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out of the way but if you pop this off
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too hard
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you could easily break that power supply
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off the board
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but you will see now here is the
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installed four gigs of ram
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it has two slots so there's no need to
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mess with that one that's already in
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there
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you're just going to take your new ram
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line it up
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slide it in and press down until
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these little spring load clips pop in
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and that's it you're good to go if you
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did decide why you're in here you wanted
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to
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upgrade the storage or anything like
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that the storage on these chrome boxes
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is located here
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you have to take this wi-fi card off
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with this single screw
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then take the screw out here and slide
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in your new storage but other than that
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you're good there's nothing you have to
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do on the software side to add this ram
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you just pop it in put it back together
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power it on
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and it's gonna recognize that it now has
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eight gigs of ram instead of four
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again you could do two eight gig sticks
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you could do a four and a two
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you could do two sixteens if you wanted
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to but that's it guys
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you're just going to reassemble it just
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the same way we took it back apart
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i have found that these tend to lose
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their sticky after you take them off a
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couple of times you can just buy some
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you know aftermarket double-sided tape
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and put them back on there or you don't
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have to put them back on there at all
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other than that there's nothing else to
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do to put new ram in this device so
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i actually did this video because i got
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an email the other day from someone who
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was looking at purchasing one of these
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for one of their institutions and he
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wanted to make sure that this was
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relatively simple to do and on a scale
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to 1 to 10
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it's about a 3. just make sure you have
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the right tools
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make sure you have the grounding strap
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other than that there's really not a lot
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you can do to mess this
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up it's fun to tinker with stuff like
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this i love doing stuff like this
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and with all the new chrome boxes on the
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market we're hoping to get some more on
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hand because every device is a little
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bit different
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and we really would like to do one for
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each chrome box that's out there because
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some of them are going to be more
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difficult than others
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some of them might not be worth your
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time other than that guys that's been it
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