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hey folks Robbie Payne with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with an unboxing of
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the much anticipated HP Chromebook 13 G1
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now as many of you know this one comes
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packing a ton of things that fill out
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the spec sheet brand new processors in
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the core M line this particular one is
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the M5 8 gigs of RAM a 3200 by 1800
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pixel display um super thin all aluminum
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chassis back lit keyboard um all sorts
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of things two USB type-c ports lots of
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great stuff lots of great things to see
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I'm excited I hope you're excited let's
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get in here and unbox this
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thing all right so let's get into this
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thing pretty standard HP Fair as far as
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the packaging goes uh nothing out of the
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ordinary here it's a shame like you know
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the Chromebook Pixel comes with a a
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pretty premium uh boxing unboxing
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experience this is pretty standard Fair
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cardboard um it's a Chromebook so we're
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not worried about too much uh we have
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the uh USB type-c charger here but
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basically a normal block nothing else in
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there and out comes what you've all been
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waiting for and what you came here to
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see
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anyway
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um basically down in here we
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have just your normal setup instructions
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um and we've said it a 100 times before
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it's a Chromebook open it up sign in
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move on uh probably warranty all that
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kind of stuff leave all that in the
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Box Chuck that
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aside
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and let's get a look at this
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guy and I will tell you folks that
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strikes just a
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gorgeous
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gorgeous profile file uh the aluminum is
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nice it does not feel cheap uh IA the
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Acer Chromebook 14 I didn't care for the
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way the aluminum actually kind of fell
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plastic uh this definitely does not come
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across that way at all I do wish they
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would have put the new HP logo if you
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haven't seen it check out the
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Spectre um it it's actually just four
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lines which is really neat um especially
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for HP to have that cool of a logo um so
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let's take a look around this guy man it
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is light I've been carrying around the
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pixel for a little while and wow it's
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thin holy moly okay let's get focused in
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here on some
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ports there we go um so we got a USB uh
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three two type- C's combo Jack there
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nothing across the
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front here we have a micro SD card
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slot across the back you have that
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really nice chrome
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finish um and this this feels a little
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bit reminiscent of the pixel across the
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bot bottom I've smudged that one up
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already so that's going to get some
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smudges on it just uh just be worn there
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um wide feet just like the pixel which
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is pretty cool um nothing really else
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some screws I guess you could open it up
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but my guess is with something this thin
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and let me uh I don't have anything
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around me to give you any kind of idea
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of how stinking thin this is other than
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look at this think about a Micro SD card
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um and think about how uh small that is
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and how thin these pieces are now
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granted it does uh bevel away a little
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bit here at the edge turn into the
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lights so you can kind of see yeah you
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can see kind of how it bevels away at
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the edge and so it technically isn't
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that thin but the way it strikes the
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side image because of the way it's
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beveled that way man it just looks
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really sharp uh and really light so
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impressed already not sure what HP is
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doing with this bar I think it's on the
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Spectre as well and some other devic
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that they're coming out with now um I
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thought it was going to be a light bar I
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think a lot of people did that would
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have been really really sick to have a
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light bar that large across this thing
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but alas it does not it does have this
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really really cool uh kind of like o
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sorry kind of a matte finish Chrome logo
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there which is really really nice
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looking um normally I like to see all
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the colors there but that is that is
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pretty nice
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looking all right let's open it up up
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and man that's really close to a oneand
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open maybe that hinge once it gets
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worked in a little bit uh perhaps will
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be a one-handed Affair not sure
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yet and on the inside we have the
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unfortunate stickers which they'll come
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off gooone all that good stuff um you
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can you can get rid of those things but
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it's kind of a shame that they're there
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um travel is actually really good
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especially for a key uh a device this
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thin uh the travel feels good they're
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really clicky they're not mushy at all
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uh this feels like it's going to be a
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great typing experience you have the
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bang and Olson uh speakers across here
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I'll be really interested to check those
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out um and we have a relatively good
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size trackpad here um it's it reminds me
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a lot of the Dell Chromebook 13 as far
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as size so the depth of it actually
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isn't uh very tall but you can see my
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entire hand fits inside of that so
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decently wide um hard telling I don't
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think that's glass it's got a little bit
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more texture on it feels really good
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though feels really really good uh just
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like with any other trackpad time will
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tell how it's going to work out but it
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doesn't feel like it's picking up oils
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on my fingers a lot and so that's always
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a a welcome surprise The Click it's nice
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and quiet sturdy in all places not too
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deep feels good let's see if it'll power
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up as we all know most Chromebooks will
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not do so without being powered up
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first
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nope before I do that though I just want
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to give you an idea of how absurdly thin
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this thing is I mean it is crazy thin
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and light just so light I've come into
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this thing pretty much sure that my
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pixel will stay around um but man this
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thing makes a really good first
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impression I'm going to go and tell you
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this screen looks awesome
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and as I always
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say feel free to steal my password if
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you want to CU this is our public
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Wi-Fi let's see if it's going to let me
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crank the brightness up yeah there we go
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nice and bright it's very unfortunate
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the packaged background in here um is
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not up to Snuff with the
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display cuz all the text and stuff looks
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super duper sharp um and we're just
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going to browse as a guest for right
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now and let's check out some viewing
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angles um very good as you would expect
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I mean I wasn't expecting anything less
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here let's go side to side here we got
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plenty of battery so move that
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aside H yeah so great viewing angles it
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looks like uh this is going to be the
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type of ips yeah I don't yeah you can
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kind of see that white wash um this
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happens on IPS displays that aren't of
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the highest caliber um off off angle so
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like a 45° off angle um you lose a
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little bit of color um not a huge deal
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um you on a laptop especially you're not
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really going to notice it one thing I
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did notice on the uh Dell Chromebook 13
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was there was some light bleed issues um
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on the touchscreen version so the one
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that had the glossy IPS display where
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you got a little bit of darkening around
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the edges some kind of just checking to
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make sure that is not the case here and
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I do not see that here which is nice I
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do see it a little bit just a tiny bit
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across the top um it's nowhere near as
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noticeable as the Dell Chromebook 13 now
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one thing I have not seen thus far um
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and we're going to check it out right
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now is what this thing scores on octane
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cuz it's really hard to
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figure exactly what these core
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processors are going to do so here we go
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let's check this out right now um like I
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said I can tell you the text and
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everything is so reminiscent of the
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pixel um colors are bright and vibrant
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the the darks are are great I think the
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screen's probably a little um got a
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little bit less contrast I would say
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than the pixel and and in all of this
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I'm going to do a side by side with the
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pixel we're going to compare some stuff
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um we'll take up some things on on go+
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and get some questions and things you
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guys want want to see side by side cuz
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obviously that's that's kind of where
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this guy's gunning wow that's really
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really impressive uh wow I'm impressed
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um I hope you guys are too as you're
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watching this this is the core M5 guys
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uh my Chromebook Pixel with
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i7 uh fifth gen i7 processor that gets
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around 29,000 so this processor is
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booking it um wow that's impressive and
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I'm going to go and take this update
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real quick cuz who knows that might
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actually make it faster and we'll try
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one more going play a little bit of
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music for you and then we'll kind of
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wrap this guy up for now um see a
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critical update see on this all white
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screen it's probably impossible to see
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it on the video there's a slight bit of
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that light bleed and it's kind of like
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reverse light bleed I don't really know
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exactly what it is I know it is a
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symptom of the slightly cheaper IPS
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panels um and again it's nowhere near as
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bad my the Dell that I had I sent back
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immediately it uh it it looked like
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there was vignetting all around the
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screen and it's it's here it's slight
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but it's here on this Chromebook as well
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let's stick to being a
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guest
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and um let's do two
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things hopefully M MKBHD will not mind
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me playing one of his videos
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if you don't subscribe to this guy
10:34
subscribe he
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is among the best if not the
10:41
best uh In The Biz he's pretty awesome
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so we're going to go aad and push this
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thing do 4K why not and just see kind of
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what this uh what this looks like and
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how this see here my go-to wireless
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earbuds for the past couple years have
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been jbird blue buds these are problem
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chewing up 4K like wer at C earlier that
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score I'm not surprised bluetoo earbuds
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and the pict
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looks be so it's a new design new tech
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essentially trying to make them the new
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best wireless earbuds you can buy so the
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jird x2s so we're get nice smooth
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playback in 4k which is really awesome
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much smaller think like the x10 sort of
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design that yeah that looks really
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really great and like I said it's
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chewing through 4K like it's no one's
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business so
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that's pretty awesome
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ISS let's run our octane one more
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time cuz I've seen this asked tons of
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times uh by the way chassis is super
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firm uh keyboard is exactly as good as I
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thought it was going to be uh feels
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great track pad's tracking very nicely
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um sorry I was doing the gesture
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backwards cuz normally I turn mine
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upside down uh yeah no problems there
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let's do
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yeah three fingers swipe back and forth
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nice uh and the screen doesn't feel
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cramped for some reason like a lot of
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times 13.3 in displays feel a little
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cramped here's why this feels better
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because it's 8 or 3200 by 1800 the the
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display resolution that Chrome OS is
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actually giving you is as if it was 1600
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by 900 and I have long said 1,600 by 900
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is the right resolution for a 13.3 inch
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screen 1080p makes everything a little
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bit too small
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um and so this is this feels good cuz
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standing back here a lot of times like
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for instance the Dell or the Toshiba uh
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both of those um standing back as I'm
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doing the review it was kind of hard to
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retext I'm having no issues now and for
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those of you keeping count I have 2020
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Vision so um it wasn't my vision uh it's
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just that 1080p is is really scrunching
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stuff on a on a 13.3 in display uh hence
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the reason that um you know a MacBook
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Pro that's 13 in comes out of the box
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it's rendering double this obviously
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just like this is but it's doing 1280 by
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800 um and and so same same kind of
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tricks happen in here same thing with
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the pixel pixel kind of comes out of the
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box at 1280 by 850 um it is actually
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running obviously 2560 by 1700 but the
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way it's rendering objects on the page
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is as if it's running um those those
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smaller resolutions so um we didn't
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really get much of a bump but man 29,000
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pretty much I mean we're a few points
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away from from 29,000 that that is
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really impressive and I'm not surprised
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cuz they're tatting this thing as being
13:36
able to push 4K like no big deal push
13:39
two extra monitors so I figured these
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processors were going to have to be a
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step up cuz the core M from last year
13:44
really was not good and so to see them
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really bump up performance on the M3 M5
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M7 and get this kind of battery life
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which let's see what it's saying yeah
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it's probably not accurate right now cuz
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it's saying 70% is only 3 hours so that
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way only put me at about 7 hours total
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so we'll we'll obviously get a better Fe
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feel for battery life um in the coming
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days uh obviously I will be working once
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I get this guy set up I'll be working
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from this thing for a little while Let's
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uh let's watch a movie trailer how about
14:16
that
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um no not born identity I want Jason
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born
14:24
yeah let's prank this volume
14:32
not the loudest thing I've ever heard uh
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for sure I know who I
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am when we finish with you you'll no
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longer be
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yourself nice clear highs
14:48
though good wide
14:51
sound I remember everything remembering
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everything doesn't mean you know
14:57
everything
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tell
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me let's get to where this is probably
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going to get more
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excited there we
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go this is Jason bour I need to talk 32
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kills so let me say this um not loud
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really at all um let's see what uh
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track I've been listening to
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[Applause]
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lately okay um to have the whole bang
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and aen audio thing
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going it's okay um they're very clear U
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they have a very good uh full sound uh
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they're just it's just not loud at all
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it's kind it's kind of quiet actually uh
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so it'll be interesting to see how it
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does and handles and hangouts and that
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kind of stuff um other than that um you
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can check us out on Twitter Google+ uh
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Facebook the website all those kind of
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things if you want to hit us up and ask
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some questions about this thing so as
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I'm fiddling with it over the next week
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and preparing a review um I can kind of
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try some of those things uh but overall
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very impressed um the only Chromebook I
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could say that strikes this kind of
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first impression to me uh ever was the
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Chromebook Pixel uh it's very nice that
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clearly to me I'm I'm already telling uh
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there's some things that it's not up to
16:34
Snuff with the pixel on and it shouldn't
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be it's not quite as expensive as the
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pixel um the high-end level is pushing
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it but to me this is about
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performance-wise probably going to match
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the pixel step for step for the most
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part and so um if I can get into this
16:49
guy for $800 versus $1,300 for a i7
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pixel well hey that's $500 and so it'll
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be interesting playing with this for the
16:57
next week or so and seeing how it works
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I love the the form factor of it I love
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the build uh I love the look initially
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of this device and so uh keep it locked
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to the channel the website Facebook
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Twitter all that kind of stuff you can
17:08
find us we're at Chrome unboxed and
17:10
chrome unboxed on all those all those
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multiple channels uh you check us out
17:14
you follow us there um I'm going to be
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posting some stuff about this throughout
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the week we'll get the review out we're
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going to get a side by side with the
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pixel all that kind of good stuff and
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I'd like to answer your questions if you
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have them so um until next time guys
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thank you for watching we'll see you in
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the next one bye
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