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In this video, I unbox the HP Chromebook 11 and give some initial reactions. After a few days of real-world action, I will post a more in-depth review and explain how the HP Chromebook 11 holds up to actual work.
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hey guys this is Robbie Payne uh doing a
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quick unboxing of the HP Chromebook 11
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just came in the mail today so check out
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and see what's in the box
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um probably just going to power it on
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today um and that's about
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it going to spend a couple days with it
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I'm also spending some time with the um
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the Chromebook 14 as well which is many
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of you know is the Haswell Celeron
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version uh at 14 in but this guy's got a
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lot more
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U uh fun things on the exterior uh but
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the the same arm processor that the
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Samsung Chromebook had from last year so
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I'll get a chance to do some side by
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side kind of stuff with that uh over the
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next week really get to work with it and
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see kind of what the performance
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differences are um and see how they
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stack up against one another uh but this
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kind of is uh Google's baby for the next
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year as far as Chromebooks go um really
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cool packaging uh nice rounded Corners
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um and they even um were thoughtful
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enough to put the color that I ordered
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on the outside so it's not generic it
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actually goes with the particular device
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which is kind of
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neat I'll say so far this this winds and
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packaging between this and the uh the
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hp14
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all right so um kind of cool
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packaging set this aside for a second
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[Music]
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um yeah a get started thing that's kind
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of part of the thing with Chrome OS
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really you don't need all this stuff you
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just sign in and go um as mentioned in
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um pretty much everything about this so
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far the uh the charging brick is micro
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USB um let's see
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the yeah it's a 3 amp so a lot of
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tablets you see a 2 amp charger that's
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actually a three amp charger so it's
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going to put out uh pretty well
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um probably charge your phone really
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really quickly so that's all that's in
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the box that's it nice and clean so
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we'll get that out of the way as well
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and and this guy up here there is a
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requisite plastic
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[Music]
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sheath and we're in
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and the device strikes a nice profile
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very thin um you know very plasticy um
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that's not a surprise to anybody um this
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has got a nice uh nice soft touch to it
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and and the device is very very very
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light and I have been dealing with the
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uh Chromebook 14 which which comes in at
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a whopping 4 PBS um as in this one is I
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think 2.3 if I remember correctly uh so
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considerably lighter um much smaller so
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let's uh open it
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up we get the nice little accents and
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hopefully unlike the 14 this one will
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just power on off the
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get-go the big difference in this one uh
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again is uh a lot of the aesthetic stuff
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so the screen uh being that IPS display
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I can kind of already tell has some much
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better viewing angles um then okay um we
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got some usable Wi-Fi there for a minute
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off the hotspot and we're able to get
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the latest and greatest uh Chrome build
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30 uh interesting note this one and the
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hp14 right now and I think the C720
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that's coming uh will be the only ones
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right now that have stable build 30
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everybody else is on stable 29 so I have
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heard some reports as well um of a
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couple guys who have gotten their hands
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on this already and have moved to the
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dev Channel which is a couple usually a
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couple builds in front of what's stable
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and they are reporting that uh casting
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tabs on chomecast which uh if you've
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ever had the Samsung Chromebook with the
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same processor in it as this guy U you
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would know that uh casting a tab is uh
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just kind of a nightmare on that thing
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it just really cannot handle it
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whatsoever um and they're having they're
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reporting being able to play full motion
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video with no problem over chomecast so
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that's a huge huge huge uh development
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if if that's the case across the board
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and and hopefully what it means is that
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uh Google's choice to stick with the uh
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the exos uh dual processor in this one
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uh was was hopefully because uh they're
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actually gearing Chrome OS to be able to
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run better on this architecture because
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if you've looked in the past the uh the
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Nexus 10 still scores incredibly high on
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all the benchmarks um even even right
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now and it's the exact same processor
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now granted Android obviously is
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probably a way better coded to work on
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our processors that's pretty much all it
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does and so um hopefully the the guys
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that are developing for Chrome OS uh are
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pushing in that direction since this is
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kind of what they've what they've
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decided to go with so U just a quick
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show real quick um you can see this is
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in gadget loaded up and in gadget has
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quite a bit of stuff going on on it um
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you've got uh uh videos loaded up you've
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got ads that are moving and um a lot of
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media and long page and with a two
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finger scroll um incredibly smooth on
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this um a little Checker boarding there
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and that's probably due to um uh the the
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2 gig ram constraints more than likely
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but interestingly enough it seems like
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the processor is kind of holding its own
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on this um and so uh other couple quick
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observations um the trackpad doesn't
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bother me at all uh feels great tracks
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really well with the finger um two
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finger scrolling is working really
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really well uh the keyboard is uh has
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very good travel um tactile feels good
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um the screen uh we'll crank the
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brightness all the way up is bright I
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don't think it's that much brighter if
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at all any brighter than the the 14inch
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uh but the side viewing angles I'm
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standing kind of to the side right now
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I'm over here um are are way way better
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obviously than the TM panel that's on
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the Chromebook 14 and that's to be
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expected and then you know the the text
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looks more crisp just because you're
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taking the same
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the same resolution and squashing it
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down into a smaller form factor so um
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you guys probably already know all those
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things but uh yeah first blush it does
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it looks really nice um it is very very
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firm uh there's no give in the in the
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computer at all no flex in the keyboard
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uh which is very nice um has a really
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really nice profile um it almost it does
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you can open it right up without
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actually having to pry it open which uh
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is a is a thing that I covet from from
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MacBooks
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um and let me see if I can pull up
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something to give you a taste of the
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speakers here this Hotpot isn't
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performing that admirably so bear with
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me just a second let see if we can get a
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YouTube video below that
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and part of the performance you're
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probably seeing right now is all of a
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sudden Chrome is now installing all my
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extensions on top of what it's doing so
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uh if you're going to look at that and
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say oh I saw lag I saw lag you know you
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might want to give it a break just a
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little bit so I'm going to load it one
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of my own videos so I don't get in
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trouble for any copyright kind of stuff
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and we're going to crank the sound and
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see what it sounds is Robbie pay with a
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quick unboxing SL login with the allnew
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HP Chromebook 14 now this is the green
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model um and it doesn't look that green
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we got this I'm going to go ahead and on
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the Nexus recing this with right now um
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there's a slight green Hue to but it has
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a lot of blue so I know it's I think
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it's ocean turquoise is what they're
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calling the color and so you can kind of
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see on the side of the box here um they
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make the green look incredibly green and
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so I didn't really want this I wanted
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the white one they just didn't have one
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at stock um so I know I did get this I
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picked this up today uh at Walmart so
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yeah speakers are loud and it's really
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interesting um and I've read this but
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it's it's an interesting thing to
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experience the sound actually coming up
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out of the keyboard uh is a pretty neat
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experience uh rather than it trying to
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come from underneath um or somewhere up
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in the up in the panel um so very good
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um some of the quality issues on that
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are obviously we're we're pretty low
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band with right now
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um so yeah that's uh that's kind of just
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my first impressions open it up get my
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hands on it the first time um I'm going
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to put it through its Paces right now
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I've got the hp14 I've got Linux
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installed on it um actually worked from
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it all day today and it was incredibly
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enjoyable um so I'll do the same with
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this and put them both through their
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Paces uh I'll have some full reviews up
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of both in the next coming days and then
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we'll maybe do a kind of head-to-head
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and compare the two for those of you who
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are on the fence about which one to get
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um but that's all for today thanks for
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watching
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