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We’ve only officially known of the HP x360 14c for a little over a month, so to see it go from announced to available in just a few weeks is a nice change. As I’ve said before, I’d love to see this on a more-regular basis across the board. All that being said, we now have the rather-lovely new HP Chromebook x360 14c in the office and are jumping in the box to see what it looks and feels like with an initial hands-on. With a combo of great looks, fast internals, and a generous 14-inch display, this Chromebook could be a big seller this year.
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smack dab in the middle of 2020 we are
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excited to have in the house for an
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unboxing the new HP X360 14c the
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successor to the very popular X
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36014 U so let's just jump in the box
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and see what's in
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here all right so we grabbed this at
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Best Buy uh the retail price on it is
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$629 for right now we actually got it
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for $100 off um you can get a student
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discount on it currently and if this
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one's anything like the HP x364 that
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came before it it's going to be on sale
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like all the time so we're kind of
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hoping that's the case cuz honestly at
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$630 before even messing with this
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device I can tell you it faces some
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pretty stiff competition and things like
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the flex 5 from Lenovo and the very
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excellent uh 713 the spin 713 from Acer
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both of those devices compete heavily on
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features and price and the 713 for
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instance is the exact same price MSRP as
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this one and just looking at a spec
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sheet alone brings some things to the
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table that the HP doesn't have but
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that's to say nothing of the way this
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thing feels the fit the finish all that
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kind of stuff so we got to figure all
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that stuff out obviously this is pretty
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general standard uh Chromebook boxing
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here nothing
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flashy the charger it's going to be a
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two-piece which I'm not against because
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honestly having the huge block in the
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wall sometimes is kind of awkward to get
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plugged in so it is nice to have the
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basic extension um so yeah there's
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nothing special going on here obviously
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USBC power
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brick but yeah I I'd like to see the
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extension but then have kind of the
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brick that goes you know along with that
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uh paperwork here yeah nothing out of
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the ordinary here nothing different than
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what we would expect uh but you're here
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for this Chromebook and I can already
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tell you I'm happy to see right up top
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that new HP logo and I there's just
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something to be said about the ability
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to Brand yourself with four lines I mean
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that's really cool I think HP needs to
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put this on like all of their stuff and
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the more you sit and stare at it the
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more it looks just like lines but it's
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it's kind of ingenious I really like
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that um trying to feel here definitely
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an aluminum lid nice and solid nice and
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firm not that light um again for the
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review we'll get into all the specifics
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but I think this is around 3 lb and it
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it feels it it feels substantial we'll
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say that not the thinnest device either
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uh but you know very attractive looking
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from the
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outside feels like HP went with a
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plastic bottom again it looks very
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similar to the aluminum on top but that
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is almost definitely plastic on the
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bottom nice huge grill across the bottom
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here for your vents and some vents
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across the back too which tells me it
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will have a fan which is good we don't
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want to run into those Samsung Galaxy
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Chromebook overheating issues uh nice
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hinges around the sides we've got a USB
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type-c micro SD card headphone
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microphone and that kind of new jaw drop
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thing that HP is doing uh with their
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full-size USB ports um this device isn't
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like crazy thin so I'm not really sure
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what the purpose of that mechanic is but
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it's kind of cool looking uh then you
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got power volume rocker over here um and
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then you've got this privacy slider
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which is really cool uh power button and
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another USB type-c port obviously we're
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going to have to cut away here in just a
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second to get it powered
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on um so yeah let's do that real quick
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okay now now we're powered up and logged
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in um I can tell you the hinge feels
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nice and firm um you've got upward
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firing
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speakers a nice wide glass
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trackpad uh and and very minimal bezels
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let's wake it back up here so super
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minimal bezels especially on the three
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sides and even the bottom side is is
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pretty minimal here a lot of times we
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get these 16x9 Chromebooks that have
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this huge chunk bezel on the bottom so
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it's nice to see HP kind of minimizing
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that a little bit there's this nice
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tapered rounded off thing going on here
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on the top that's really nice you've got
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a fingerprint scanner obviously that
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will work after it's all set up and
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everything uh but more importantly very
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quiet on the keys and man they they they
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feel really nice uh really nice click
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it's just becoming a normal thing I
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think with Chromebooks we're just
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getting these great keyboards one after
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the other uh it is back lit obviously
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and HP has made great keyboards on their
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Chromebooks for a few years now so I
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wasn't expecting anything less but yeah
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that feels really nice and nice glass
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trackpad add a very satisfying click so
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everything feels really good there and
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it feels like this is an aluminum upper
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so we've got an aluminum lid nice and
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firm aluminum bottom piece here not a
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lot of flex to the chassis which is nice
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bno speakers um you know we'll get into
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those for the review don't expect too
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much but it is nice that they're upward
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firing so regardless of how good or bad
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speakers are anytime they fire upwards
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it's always kind of a win there let's
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see how the tablet mode feels like that
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hinge is super sturdy that feels really
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good uh slight magnet there on the
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enclosure so when it's in tablet mode if
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you're going to use a 14in device in
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tablet mode that often um it does that
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pretty well kind of a strange offset if
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you can see the way that that hinge
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offsets that's just weird I've not seen
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that before so um again none of these
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devices are ever built with tablet mode
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uh as the first priority it's just kind
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of a secondary thing so um take that for
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what it is but yeah the key board feels
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great the back lighting doesn't bleed
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all over the place and everything feels
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nice and solid well built and premium
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like I and I think that's the takeaway
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here I mean at 600 bucks you need a
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device to feel premium and you know this
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one is going to be coming in just a
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single configuration from what we know
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core I3 8 gigs of RAM so it's a 10th gen
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core I3 8 gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of
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internal storage obviously expandable
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via SD card slot so you're not going to
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be able to bump up the I 5 or 16 gigs of
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RAM I do wish they would have put 128
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gigs of storage in here though
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especially at that $630 price point but
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I think the way this thing is going to
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compete is a it's going to go on sale a
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lot that would be my guess and then B it
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does have a little bit better fit and
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finish I can just tell you already out
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of the box uh over some of the
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competitors so when you compare it to
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like the Lenovo Flex 5 or the Acer spin
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713 like I don't know this thing just
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feels a little more put together just I
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don't know thoughtfully designed
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possibly uh but yeah it's it's very nice
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obviously I'm going to have to use it
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over the next uh you know couple weeks
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and give you all some thoughts and a
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full review on it uh because again stiff
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competition at this point in 2020 that
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honestly I just didn't see coming but I
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know part of that is because of things
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like the flex 5 but we're getting these
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great Chromebooks with great features
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coming down in price and so you can't
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throw something out there with 64 gigs
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of internal storage even if everything
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else is nice about it and expect people
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to jump on it when there are other
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options that have just as many features
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and maybe more features and better
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internal specs uh at the same price
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point one last thing I will say uh it
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does look like the screen I think that
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HP rated it at uh 250 nits um it looks
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good um not crazy bright I would say 250
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is about as much as you're going to get
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there so it's probably not blowing the
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shot out I wouldn't think um so I mean
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bright enough 250 nits is is usable and
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it's going to be workable in most uh
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environments but in a bright environment
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you're going to notice a 250 nit screen
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comes down and and uh in some of its
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brightness compared to things around it
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and so keep that in mind uh there are
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other screens out there that similar
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price point that are much brighter I
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mean that's just kind of the the nature
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of the Beast there but I can say colors
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look awesome the small bezels look
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awesome on it and a 14-inch diagonal
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measure it's a 1080p screen so 1920 x
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1080 I mean it's it's got a great pixel
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density the colors look really good the
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whites look nice um so it's not a bad
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display by any by any stretch of the
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Imagine
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I just think there are other competitors
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out there so anyway I've got to form all
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my opinions about this thing I need to
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use it for a little bit like I told you
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I I can tell you right now already that
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it just feels great in the hand and it
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looks great I mean it is just a
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strikingly pretty device and so I'm
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excited to get you know some more time
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in with it and get back to you guys with
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