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hey folks Robbie Payne with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with a full review
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of the HP Chromebook 13 G1 now this
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thing comes in packing the spec sheets
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it's got an all aluminum or mostly
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aluminum build a lot of things that seem
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impressive on the outside and to be
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honest it's impressive on the inside too
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but it's not without its flaws so let's
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get into this review and see how this
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guy Stacks
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up
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so the HP Chromebook 13 does lots of
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things right uh out of the gate the
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aluminum build is is gorgeous uh the
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overall design uh it feels inspired uh
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and not a rehash of something we've seen
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before uh the quality of the build the
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way things are put together overall for
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the most part feels really good the
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screen is excellent typing is really
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great on it so there's really not a lot
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for me to fault in this device um and so
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around the office here we've we've
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really enjoyed having this thing around
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um and so I just want to talk through uh
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and kind of go around the device so that
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you can kind of see um some of the
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things that I can tell you about a few
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of the quirks um that I see in the
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device and we can all kind of uh make
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our decisions based on those things and
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hopefully this review helps you out um
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if you're considering purchasing the HP
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Chromebook 13 G1 around the top lid
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we've got this nice brushed aluminum
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does not feel cheap it feels really
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really good actually around the back
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side we have this beautiful chromed out
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hinge uh it looks a little bit like the
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pixels hinge um and and gives a
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satisfying click kind of and I might be
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able to get this on here whenever you
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close
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it um and it actually kind of feels like
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it it solidly closes the device and so
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you don't have the the lid flopping
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around on you so that's a very nice
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touch uh around the sides uh we see the
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uh two USB type-c ports and then one USB
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3.0 port Port combo headphone microphone
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Jack nothing across the front save this
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really cool bevel um uh that that's kind
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of beveled inwards that way it just
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gives it a nice neat look again little
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things in this device that that kind of
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set it apart uh we've got the SD card
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slot over here uh that uh is micro so
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keep that in mind if you have um storage
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um you're going to have to switch to
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micro SD if you are using a full size um
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and that's pretty much it around the top
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the bottom
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um some people have commented about
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having a plastic bottom this didn't
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bother me at all um a because you don't
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really see the bottom that often B
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because the the soft touch plastic
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actually gives it a little bit of grip
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when you're holding it and because it is
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so thin um and and comes in at such a
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thin form factor it actually gives it a
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nice bit of grip when you're carrying it
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around and I will say this for the outer
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build quality of the device and again
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there's no fans uh just 2 feet across
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the bottom there's no fans no vents no
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porch none of that stuff so very clean
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looking um but um the overall just build
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of this device and the kind of the
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inspired feel the design uh really just
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makes you uh enjoy using the device and
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so some of the flaws that we'll talk
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about in a few minutes uh kind of get
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overlooked a little bit because the
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device just feels and looks so good once
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we pop the lid open uh we're met with
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this gorgeous display I want to say a
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few notes on it really quickly it is a
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3200 by 1800 display um so if you do
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some quick math and divide those two in
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half get 1600 by 900 that's exactly the
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way this Chromebook actually renders uh
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objects on the screen so text um icons
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all that kind of stuff if you put it up
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next to a 1600 by 1900 uh or, 1600 by
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900 uh 16 by 9 aspect ratioed monitor
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that the stuff on the screen would
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actually look the same size now this is
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going to be twice as sharp in both
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directions so um the reason I point that
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out is I've long said that probably
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1,600 by 900 is a better optimal um uh
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aspect ratio when it comes to a 13.3 in
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device uh because 1080p makes everything
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really tiny and then you try to do some
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scaling and certain things work in
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scaling and certain things don't so the
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minute you take a 1080p 13.3in device
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and set it on a stand or get it you know
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away from you in your lap it it starts
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to make you kind of squint and for those
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that want to know I do have I have 2020
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Vision um so I don't wear glasses or
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anything like that so if I'm having the
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squint that means that most people would
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as well so um that that to me's always
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been a little off-putting so600 by 900
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just makes sense and it really does it
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it makes the most of this display uh
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Everything feels the right size
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everything's in the right place uh it
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just it just feels good at a little bit
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of a distance or right up in your lap
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Everything feels great um and so kudos
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to HP for really nailing this uh this is
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probably one of my favorite parts of
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this it's the first 13in 16x9 uh device
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cuz the pixel's close to 13in but it's a
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3x2 and so you get more of a square
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display and it doesn't feel as cramped
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but uh the Dell Chromebook the Toshiba
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all of those for some reason that that
5:06
13.3 in uh in that and in uh 1080p
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display always just didn't work for me
5:13
and so this this is great you get these
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beautiful viewing angles as you can see
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as we move this thing on angle and off
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angle both side to side uh wide viewing
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angles really great colors uh just a
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beautiful display crazy sharp just about
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as bright as the Chromebook Pixel I want
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to say the Chromebook Pixel comes at 400
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nits this one's in the 360 or 350 range
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which is plenty bright you're not going
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to run into a situation where you can't
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see the see the display so that's that's
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very encouraging had some comments about
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the plastic around the bezel um and and
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honestly that's not been an issue um I I
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know that glass all the way to the edges
5:51
uh gives a better premium feel I agree
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with that completely but this plastic
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for whatever reason didn't bother me
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it's not that cheap plastic it actually
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has a pretty decent feel to it same
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stuff that's on the bottom um doesn't
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attract too many fingerprints and um
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really uh it just hasn't bothered me at
6:07
all with this device and so been really
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pleased with the display there is like
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if you come off angle and you're looking
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from the top so the the angle I'm
6:15
looking at it right now and kind of you
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guys would be looking at it you're going
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to see a little bit of washed out uh
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colors and that is just part of an IPS
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display there's um a class of IPS
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display that's a little better than this
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so what you would see on an iPad or the
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Chromebook Pixel or uh MacBook Retina uh
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screens those don't have that issue so
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HP had to cut some cost in some places
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that's just kind of understandable
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keyboard uh is fantastic uh for a for a
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device this thin uh really impressed me
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it's got six stages of backlight if you
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count the off position um the the keys
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have a slight texture to them I just I
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really enjoy typing on this keyboard um
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I like the travel the clickiness of the
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keys everything felt great it was
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responsive I was able to type fast on it
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can't say enough I love this keyboard
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and in this thin form factor that was
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pretty impressive uh for them to get
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that kind of travel built into here
7:05
right above the keyboard we have the
7:07
bang and alen audio uh branded cool
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speaker Grill here so these are machined
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holes up in the top and the these are
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just really nice design aspects um it's
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it's it's a really neat look it's really
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interesting um and with the branding and
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all the kind of talk about bang Aon
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audio I was kind of expecting uh
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something really amazing uh and got
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something that sounds pretty average for
7:30
uh laptop speakers so don't go throwing
7:33
out your Bluetooth speakers or anything
7:35
like that this is not going to replace
7:36
them but it is very good the audio
7:38
sounds good and crisp the highs are
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really nice and there's a it's a good
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round sound it's just not very loud and
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there's no uh base to be uh talked about
7:47
here but that's normal for laptop
7:49
speakers we're not dealing with a whole
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lot of space here for anything to
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resonate even if the speakers were that
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good so uh don't set your expectations
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out of the park I kind of did a little
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bit cuz I saw all this that went into
7:59
putting these speakers in here and kind
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of made some assumptions that hey
8:03
they're really going to push the audio
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here and it's you know it's good it's
8:06
not amazing it's not going to change the
8:08
way you think about laptop speakers in
8:09
any way shape or form and then below
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that we have a trackpad I don't believe
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it's glass it's kind of hard to tell
8:14
sometimes but I don't think it is uh
8:16
more than likely some sort of aluminum
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uh the the surface is really good it
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Glides very nicely all the gestures work
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just fine all that stuff's great um the
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size of it's about the same size as the
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Dell Chromebook 13 um so it's plenty
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wide not real deep but plenty wide and
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and it gets the job done however uh the
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the the travel on the track pad um is a
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little deep for my taste and if you put
8:40
light touches on there um you can kind
8:43
of feel it give just a little bit
8:44
underneath that before you actually get
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to the click and so uh to me that's kind
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of a knock cuz when we're talking about
8:50
premium builds you know the trackpad
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being good is one of those things that's
8:53
pretty important and so everything about
8:56
the trackpad works just fine don't let
8:57
that be a a deterrent to say don't buy
9:00
this and it could have just been mine um
9:02
but that shows me that there's a little
9:05
room for improvement for kind of
9:06
cleaning that area of this device up but
9:09
overall it didn't impact or make uh the
9:12
overall experience worse in using this
9:14
device at all what's inside this guy um
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it comes in multiple configurations
9:18
actually um there are uh four basic ones
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and HP has a a site where you can
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configure uh the device But ultimately
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um it ends up being pretty much the same
9:29
for um all of them from what we can see
9:32
right now on hp's website even though
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all of them other than the Pentium at
9:36
this point in time are sold out all of
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them come with the 3200x 1800 IPS so the
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display goes across the gamut um where
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you start changing is the processor
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obviously these are all Skylight
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processors we have the pennium pennium
9:48
4405 y um the uh the M3 the M5 and the
9:53
M7 and a quick note about the core M
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processors so last year core M came out
9:59
uh um and everybody thought hey this
10:00
this is going to be a pretty decent
10:02
processor it kind of only went in the
10:04
MacBook and a handful of other windows
10:05
PCS and didn't perform very well uh and
10:08
the selling point was hey it's got great
10:09
battery and it doesn't need fans but
10:11
without performance that was adequate
10:13
the Chip Price was pretty high and so it
10:15
kind of created this conundrum for
10:17
manufacturers fast forward to this year
10:19
the core mline has come out now and just
10:21
like the core I line we have the M3 the
10:23
M5 the M7 that each kind of get more
10:26
specked out as you move up the the
10:27
ladder there and so the pennium kind of
10:30
is in the same place with the core I
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you've got the the Celeron uh U
10:34
processor so the pennium kind of fits in
10:36
that with the core M and so uh this year
10:39
I can't speak for Windows and I can't
10:41
speak for Mac OS uh I've seen some stuff
10:44
saying that the the performance has
10:46
improved um but let me tell you
10:48
something core m in Chromebooks is
10:51
legitimate um this device is the core M5
10:55
with 8 gigs of RAM and it's benchmarks
10:58
the octane benchmarks Mar s were off the
10:59
charts it was it would regularly get
11:02
29,000 sometimes 27 28,000 but somewhere
11:05
in that range and just for reference the
11:08
Chromebook Pixel that I have the ls the
11:10
i7 in it gets 27,000 on a good day and
11:13
so if I logged out and got everything
11:15
closed down and and ran it clean I was
11:17
getting 29,000 out of this thing and so
11:20
that is really really impressive um the
11:22
device never lagged it didn't have a
11:24
problem keeping up with anything I
11:25
normally do and my expectations are high
11:27
a lot of times you know I come going hey
11:29
I know what a pixel can do I know what
11:31
my my beefed out Chrome box can do and
11:33
so I want to see these devices kind of
11:34
live up to that and so I didn't know
11:36
what to expect with the corm because I
11:38
had we haven't seen them in a Chromebook
11:39
until this point and so um very very
11:42
impressed with the internals and so back
11:44
to um what's inside these guys so we
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have the the pennium the M3 M5 M7 the
11:51
device we have here is the uh core or
11:53
the uh the core M5 with 8 gigs of RAM
11:57
the pennium and the M3 come with 4 gigs
11:59
of RAM this one comes with eight and at
12:02
least out of the gate um I'm not sure I
12:04
haven't seen a whole lot of the m7s out
12:06
there they were they were pairing it
12:07
with 16 gigs of RAM price point start at
12:09
$4.99 which is what they're advertising
12:11
saying hey you can get this awesome
12:13
build for $4.99 that is with 4 gigs of
12:16
RAM and the pennium um hopefully we'll
12:18
get that one in to kind of take a look
12:19
at it to see how it performs because if
12:21
it even performs decently and has this
12:23
kind of build quality then $4.99 is
12:25
going to be an amazing price for that
12:27
device um the new 599 for the M3 4 gigs
12:31
then you move to 819 for this device 5
12:33
gigs or five M5 sorry with 8 gigs of RAM
12:37
and then you move on to uh
12:39
$1,021 these are some random pricings
12:42
for the M7 with 16 gigs all of them come
12:44
equi equipped with 32 gig emmc storage
12:48
that is a little bit slower than SSD
12:50
storage but it it I didn't notice any of
12:53
it as I was working on this device I had
12:55
no issues with that and so uh able to
12:58
install
12:59
uh Crouton because these are Intel chips
13:02
right so Crouton everything worked the
13:03
only thing I saw was that running steam
13:06
um in in the uh Ubuntu environment um I
13:10
was running into some serious issues
13:12
with games um and my guess is that steam
13:15
or Ubuntu or something I don't know
13:17
isn't optimized yet to use the GPU and
13:19
CPU that is the core M line so uh
13:22
because it wasn't just a little bit less
13:24
or something like that it was oh man
13:25
this isn't optimal it was absolutely
13:27
terrible completely almost unusable so
13:30
opening Source games which can run on
13:32
almost anything they don't take a whole
13:34
lot of uh grit to run um I was getting
13:37
like two frames per second it was it was
13:40
really bad and so my guess is they'll
13:42
they'll fix that and uh eventually those
13:45
things will run just fine and obviously
13:47
Android apps are going to run like a
13:48
breeze on this thing so wrapping up uh
13:51
what are the good things build quality
13:54
speed very surprising speed um overall
13:58
look and feel
13:59
um this thing is going to be a head
14:00
turner you take it to the coffee shop or
14:02
whatever it just looks good it feels
14:03
good when you hold it it it just
14:05
inspires some confidence it's a great
14:07
device uh from that perspective what's
14:10
bad um the um soldon uh emmc storage um
14:17
there's not going to be any upgrading of
14:18
that the mouse or trackpad being a
14:20
little bit floppy is it was kind of a
14:22
bummer um but overall there's not a
14:25
whole lot of bad going on here um of
14:28
touchscreen I guess you could say would
14:30
be a negative but ultimately this device
14:32
is really good and HP I think has
14:34
delivered something pretty phenomenal at
14:36
the price points especially if that
14:38
pennium device can really deliver from a
14:40
a usage standpoint um as far as speeds
14:43
and usability and and from what I've
14:45
seen of the Celeron when it comes with
14:47
the core ey line I I would not be
14:49
surprised if this thing really does
14:51
deliver well uh in the Pentium layout
14:53
and hopefully like I said we'll get one
14:54
of those in if I do I'll do a quick uh
14:57
kind of follow-up review to this this
14:58
video to say hey yeah guys the penum is
15:01
pretty awesome and at $4.99 to get a
15:02
device with that kind of display
15:04
keyboard trackpad build just all those
15:07
things built in if if the pennium can
15:09
you know kind of just hold its own um
15:11
that will be absolutely the go-to
15:13
Chromebook if you've got around 500
15:15
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