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as we're coming up on the end of 2018
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it's been kind of crazy around here at :
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boxed with all kinds of devices coming
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in for hands-on and review and as we
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close out the year this feels like the
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final device that we're gonna be
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spending some review time with it is the
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HP Chromebook X 360 not to be confused
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with the X 360 that came out that was
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the 11 inch version about a year ago and
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we were pretty tough on this is an
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all-new offering from HP it's a 14 inch
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Chromebook it kind of slots in there
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with the Dells and the Lenovo's of the
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world that have been coming out in the
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last couple months and for a lot of
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reasons after spending about 24 to 36
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hours with his advice I feel like it
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might hit the sweet spot in this price
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category so let's talk about why real
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quick but before we get into those first
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quick talk about the outer pieces here
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this device unlike some of the other
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ones that are coming in at this price
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range of MSRP $5.99 on this one and
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we're going to talk a little bit more
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about that in just a second this one has
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a lot more plastic going on than some of
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the other ones like from Dell and Lenovo
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and a lot of times I would say that
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that's a negative on this one I'm not so
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sure the lid is clearly some sort of
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aluminum or anodized or something they
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call it a ceramic lid feels very much
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like what's on the x2 so resist
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fingerprints really well it feels really
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good it looks really good so there's a
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lot to like about just the lid portion
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but the entire bottom part of the
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chassis is all plastic so if you're
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looking for you know this this solid
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aluminum piece of machinery this is not
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your device but you're getting a
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convertible form factor here 14 inch
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device it's relatively light it's a
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relatively thin and it just feels good
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in the hand and it looks really good on
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the table you can probably tell just
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kind of looking at
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it's it's pretty thin and again because
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of that plastic it's it's relatively
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light and has just some nice curves and
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angles and it's just unique looking so
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there's a lot about the outside portions
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of this thing that I like even though a
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lot of it's made of plastic around the
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back and the bottom though you will see
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some fan ports and there's a reason for
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that the internals on this kind of
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necessitate those so it's got a core i3
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8130 you and the u series processors
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need fans because they generate lots of
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heat and so just like the other
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Chromebooks we've kind of been reviewing
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here in the last month or so it has that
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same 8th gen KB like Core i3 u series
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processor so the performance has been
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really good so far everything I've
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needed to do for work plugging it into a
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external display and having tons of tabs
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open the core i3 just chews all that
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stuff up and this one comes equipped
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with 8 gigs of RAM as its only model
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there's not any other ones on offer
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right now from HP and 64 gigs of
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internal storage kind of round out the
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package there and and I feel like the
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core i3 with 8 gigs of ram and 64 gigs
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of storage obviously expandable via SD
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card slot kind of hits this really sweet
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spot of performance and price and value
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and all that kind of stuff because this
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thing has been on sale for $450 multiple
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times already and it's it's a new
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Chromebook and at that price it is just
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an absolute steal now as we open this
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thing up you're met with a 1920 by 1080
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Full HD IPS panel it's 14 inches there's
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nothing really flashy going on here but
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again like a lot of these Chromebooks
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that have been coming out it's really
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really good and really really
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serviceable I've really enjoyed using it
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and and it doesn't feel like I've
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degraded in some way which a lot of
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displays on cheaper machines than
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something like the pixel book have felt
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that way for a long time so I've really
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just enjoyed the the display the colors
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on it the brightness is fine it's not
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the brightest thing in the world but it
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gets by everything is just really good
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and you've got some nice thin bezels on
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the sides I really don't have anything
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to complain about with the display at
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all
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another thing I've really really liked
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about this that's just kind of on the
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inside here are the input methods so the
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keyboard has just been fantastic and I
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like the keyboard on the x2 as well a
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lot of people said they didn't like kind
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of the flimsiness of the the shell part
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of the x2 because it's a detachable so
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take that
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key action and the click enos of those
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keys and put it into a more stable
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device and that's kind of what you have
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here in HP in my opinion has been making
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some really good keyboards for quite a
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few years it's backlit as well so any of
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the naysayers that don't like non
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backlit keyboards you don't have to
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worry about that here and then you have
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a glass trackpad down at the bottom and
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though it's a little bit shallow kind of
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like the acer 13 is I haven't run into
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any of the issues thus far again we're
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24 36 hours into this thing I haven't
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run into any of the issues where the
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trackpad feels too small and I'm not
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registering key presses or Mouse
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movement on it so overall the input
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methods on this thing have just been
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fantastic I really really enjoy it now
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we do have a speaker grille right under
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the screen and B&O branding but as we've
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known with HP and B&O and the HP
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Chromebook 13 g1 that doesn't always
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necessarily mean anything and here it
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kind of doesn't either speakers are okay
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they're they're loud enough to hear
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what's on the screen and they kind of
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get the job done but they're not great
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rounding out just the port selection on
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this thing is a pretty normal story here
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that we've come to see in the last few
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months a USB type-c on both sides so you
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can charge you can plug in headphones
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you can plug in external displays on
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either side then you have a USB type a
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so for those of you that don't like to
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carry on dongles and you need one every
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once in a while you can plug in your
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peripherals there you have a headphone
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jack microphone jack and then you have a
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micro SD card slot so a pretty usual
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setup here but it's one that I really
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really liked so overall for 24 36 hours
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I can say I really really like this
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device and I kind of alluded to it
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earlier I think this one slots itself
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and again I want to give myself the full
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time to review it and spend a little bit
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more time with it before completely
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putting myself on this hook but I really
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feel like this one slots itself is the
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best overall package of these newer
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Chromebooks and again when I keep
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referring to the newer Chromebooks I'm
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talking about the the dell inspiron 14
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the Acer Chromebook spin 13 the lenovo c
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630
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so those devices that have come out that
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range somewhere between 5 to $650 and
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backlit keyboards and aluminum casings
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and all that kind of stuff they all kind
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of share a lot of the same things port
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selections and stuff like that same
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screen types and all of those things are
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shared between
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but they all kind of have different
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things that they do really well this one
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doesn't have a stylist so if that's like
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a must-have for you well maybe that's
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this isn't going to be a good fit but
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for most people that don't really need a
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stylist so don't really use a stylist
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when it comes down to screen and form
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factor it's convertible so you can use
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it in tint modes and all that kind of
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stuff when it comes down to like the
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whole package like using it on a daily
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basis I have really really liked this
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and when it goes on sale multiple times
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for $450
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this thing is so easy to recommend and
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I'm gonna spend the rest of my time with
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it reviewing it and and trying to pick
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apart and find some issues with it but
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thus far I really really liked the HP so
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