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so just this morning the fedex guy
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showed up and dropped this off the
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hp pro c640 chromebook enterprise
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and while the name is a crazy long
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honestly it shares a lot
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in common with a chromebook we've just
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recently reviewed in the chromebook x360
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from hp and for a lot of consumers
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that's going to be the chromebook you'd
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want to go get if you're interested in
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what this device has to offer this one
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is geared completely towards enterprise
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hard to even buy in consumer channels
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and so if you're an i.t
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person and you're looking at rolling out
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a ton of chromebooks this one might be
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of interest to you it brings a lot of
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premium features to the table and so
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we just want to jump in the box get some
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first impressions right along with you
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we have not had any hands on time with
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this device up to this point
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and we're excited to see how it performs
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first up we have to talk about this
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um i'm hoping this isn't how this thing
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shows up when people order these from
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hp.com which is the only place you can
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it almost looks like they cut off a box
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and then put it around a box
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so i didn't want you to see this on
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camera and think that we thought that
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not really sure what's going on here but
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there's a lot of info on the outside of
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this that make it kind of interesting so
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uh we don't have the spec yet on this as
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because it doesn't say so anywhere on
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the outside this one comes with a
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variations of the core i processors 10th
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gen corey processor so
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a lot of what you've seen us review
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lately is going to be at play here wi-fi
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again it could be an i3 or an i5 they
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8 gigs of ram 16 gigs of ram we're not
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exactly sure at this point but you get a
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around here that's kind of cool uh you
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do get the fingerprint scanner upward
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firing speakers and then the switch
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for the webcam and all of this should
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sound pretty familiar again if you
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and reviews because these two share a
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lot in common and to be fair the x360
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actually brings some things to the table
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does not it is not a 360 device this is
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just a clamshell chromebook so i got to
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cut into this thing i'm just going to
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shop right through this
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and again we have not laid hands on this
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they announced these i think back in may
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with the elite as well and then there's
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an entry-level 14-inch chromebook
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that came with this so uh we have not
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or touched these devices yet
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and one thing i would say it's probably
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going to be different about this one
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is the fact that this one uh i think is
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all aluminum the x360 14 out of
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had a plastic base to it i don't know
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that may be the same plastic base so
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there could be a whole lot of the
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same things going on here and we saw
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this from hp last time around
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they had the x360 14 that we all knew
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and then they did the x360 14 g1 for
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and it literally was the same chromebook
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it was just all aluminum
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it doesn't seem like that's the case
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this time around uh we'll
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inspect that further nothing too fancy
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get all this stuff out here all right so
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here's the chromebook this is odd too
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um they've got the regular hp logo on
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it was pretty cool had that new hp logo
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which is literally just four lines
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this one does not come with that so
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fan ports are much better concealed here
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across here is for fans and you know
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and i can see it'd probably be
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impossible for me to show you on camera
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uh up underneath the hinge there's some
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fans are hidden a little bit better in
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so let's see walk it around the sides
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here this one does come with a full hdmi
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access so we haven't seen that in any
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chromebook for a long time
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other than the spin 713 from
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acer so it's kind of cool to see that
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especially again we're talking about
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these people are going to be going in
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you know doing meetings all that kind of
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stuff being able to plug in an hdmi
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directly to a display is very handy it
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looks like a kensington lock port usb
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and that little jaw drop thing so your
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chromebook can talk i guess
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um this one again this is not super thin
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really know the reason for these little
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jaw drop things but whatever
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they're kind of cool looking another one
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of those over here another usb type-c
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micro sd card headphone microphone jack
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you would like to see in a chromebook is
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here let's see if we get a one finger
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pretty close i bet after a couple times
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oh wow so they sent us the core i7
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there's a nice little sticker right
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uh and yeah this is a matte finish
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display so some some different things
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going on here uh right off the jump from
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uh a we have a kind of a matte finish
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screen so that screen is going to
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resist you know sunlight and all that
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kind of stuff and so what that does is
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that helps a screen that maybe not as
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bright as a glossy screen
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perform in a way that's similar because
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it can kind of deflect some of those and
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harsh lights from whether it be overhead
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or whatever and it helps you to be able
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to see that screen from multiple angles
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and in harsher lighting conditions and
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it looks decently bright
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i don't i don't know exactly how bright
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it is but under our studio lights a lot
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displays look pretty dim this one
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doesn't look too bad let's see
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yep touch screen um very similar
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keyboard deck feels really really firm
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uh you get the bno speakers up top it
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doesn't have the same curvature that the
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14c has around the chassis this one's
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way more boxy and just kind of squared
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nice glass trackpad for sure great click
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mechanism none of these things are
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surprises hp does a great job with
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a lot of times my biggest gripe is with
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and it looks like this is going to be a
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pretty decent one decently small bezels
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and um i thought we got a webcam switch
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let me look around here i actually don't
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oh yep it's very very hard to see
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impossible probably for me to show you
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on camera but there's a physical
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webcam switch up here so uh that
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actually slides over so it's just a
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the webcam i'm i'm a big fan of having
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those so that people aren't sticking
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stickers and stuff like that to the top
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i think the uh the 14c handled this a
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little more elegantly
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there's actually a physical switch on
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the side of the device that allows you
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to just flip the switch and it turned
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um yeah other than that i mean
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there's not a whole lot else to talk
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yeah the hinge feels good nice and
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sturdy again so it's a full flat so you
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can do the 180 degree thing
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uh we'll have to check to see if usi
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stylus input works here
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it would be the first matte finish
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display with usi stylus support if it
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in fact support that and again this
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comes in lots of configurations and you
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can change those configurations at
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at will on hp site so impossible for me
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to tell you exactly at this point
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how much of this particular chromebook
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will run other than i can tell you it's
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um i want to say even the lower end of
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this thing if you just take all the
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still runs about 900 bucks or something
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so it's definitely going to be a bulk
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pricing scenario where an it
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group is going to go in and say hey we
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need 15 or 20 or 50 of these things
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but what i can tell you so far is that
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backlit keys here uh fingerprint scanner
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the trackpad again keyboard feel
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really good and the screen looks pretty
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good uh we'll have to test it under
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um i just don't know for consumers where
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this thing would make any sense
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versus the x360 14c or some
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other chromebooks that are made by other
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all of that stuff is for the review we
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just wanted to get this thing out of the
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box kind of see what it felt like see
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and see if it made sense in hp's lineup
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as a as an enterprise only chromebook i
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can tell you that if they put this out
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like at best buy or something that
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wouldn't make any sense whatsoever but
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as an enterprise device as we start
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thinking through what it looks like to
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deploy these things in fleets
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i could see this thing maybe making
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sense so we're going to be driving this
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for the next couple weeks
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get some impressions together and
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definitely put a review together for you
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