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today we have the hp chromebook 11a in
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the office
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and we're going to hop in the box and
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see if this small
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very blue mediatek powered chromebook
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is actually a good option for those of
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you looking for a low priced
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simple chromebook solution for basic use
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around the house or remote learning
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but before we get into that big shout
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out to mediatek for making
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our on the run to 200k giveaway possible
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you may not know this but we're rapidly
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approaching 200 000 subscribers here on
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our youtube channel and
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as a celebration of that milestone we've
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partnered with mediatek to give away a
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bunch of sweet prizes along the way that
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are
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all powered by mediatek if you want to
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get entered to win check the link in the
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description to claim your entries and
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good luck all right so let's hop in the
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box here there's not a whole lot going
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on
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obviously with this box there's not a
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whole lot going on with a whole lot of
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chromebook boxes to be honest they're
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all pretty much brown boxes
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but one cool part about this particular
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chromebook a is the price a hundred and
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sixty nine dollars uh 179 dollars it
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kind of goes on sale for different
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numbers
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it's going to get you into this
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chromebook and so it is one of the
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very very low cost devices and that was
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what kind of piqued our curiosity with
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it
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it's also blue which is kind of cool and
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it has a mediatek processor in it so
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like i said we're
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you know doing this whole run to 200k
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powered by mediatek well
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we're actually going to be giving away
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this chromebook so i just wanted to
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spend a little bit of time with it and
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so to be straightforward with you
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i've already opened this thing up and
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and logged into it and messed with it
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for a few minutes because
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ultimately i just wanted to see if a
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cheap chromebook like this
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is actually worth any of you picking up
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uh we don't tend to review a lot of
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chromebooks in this price range
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uh it's just kind of the way it is
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because a lot of them are the same but
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when they dip down in price this
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low it's worth getting them out of the
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box real quick checking to make sure
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they
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are good and especially if we're giving
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it away i you know
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we don't want to give away stuff that we
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wouldn't like to give to a family member
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or a friend or something like that so
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you know i wanted to open it up hey make
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sure it works
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but b also make sure it's just not kind
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of crappy
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uh and good news is it's not
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uh here's the charger you don't care
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about any of that stuff but i'm gonna
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set it down
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nice and gently though because like i
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said we're giving this one away
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and here we are and i hope that color is
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coming off
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on camera because it's really attractive
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i think indigo blue is the the color
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they
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they talk about with this one i just i
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love the way this chromebook looks
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i'm a big fan now especially in in lower
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cost chromebooks
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uh or even higher in chromebooks of
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getting away from just having silver i
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mean
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don't get me wrong i like the way
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macbooks look but i don't love the fact
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they're all silver it's a dark silver or
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light silver but it's just you know
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silver
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and gray and kind of bland chromebooks
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don't need to be that way there's lots
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of people that make chromebooks there's
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lots of different manufacturers and
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processors and all that kind of stuff we
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should have some color and some
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some interesting things to look at on
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the outside and
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i really like this it's all all that
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same blue
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through and through hinge every bit of
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it uh some speaker grilles on the bottom
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two nice big feet and io is uh okay
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you got a single usb type a on one side
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and then a usb type c and a micro sd
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card slot headphone jack
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again for a low-cost chromebook a simple
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chromebook
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honestly it's about all you need that's
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going to connect you to all the things
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you need to get connected to
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and looks pretty sweet so i did put that
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back
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and i can tell you you know the inside
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of it again you get that same indigo
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blue color the keyboard the keys are
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quiet
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decently clicky uh again this is a low
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end keyboard so we're not getting the
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highest end keyframe here
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but the keys feel good uh there's
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obviously no backlighting going on here
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this model doesn't have a touch screen
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but
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one thing you normally get in a device
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this cheap is a really
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terrible track pad this one clearly is
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plastic
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but the surface is really good and hp
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has gotten really good at making track
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pads and there's no like weird flopping
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around it's not loose
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the click mechanism is nice and quiet
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so all in all even though i've only used
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this trackpad for
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a little bit of time i can tell you it's
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actually pretty good and that's that's
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important because you need the trackpad
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to work well
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on a device that doesn't have a
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touchscreen it's the main way that
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you're going to move the mouse around
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your screen it's the main way you're
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going to gesture it's the main way
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you're going to get around the entire
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interface since you can't reach up and
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touch things so
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it's really cool that hp took the time
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to put a good trackpad in this
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particular device
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apart from that you get this standard
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720p camera that's
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kind of okay and you're getting a 720p
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class screen so 1366 by 768 it's a tn
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panel
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it uh it doesn't look great and
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hopefully you can kind of see it here on
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camera
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but you know this is what you expect in
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this kind of price range with a
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chromebook like this this
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is a panel that is not going to get
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crazy bright it's about 220 nits
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it's like what you've seen in a lot of
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low-end chromebooks the viewing angles
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don't look great so you can probably see
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it getting dark there and it'll get
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really white and washed out there
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so you really got to play with it to get
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the angle right but
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if there's one redeeming factor to
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screens like this in chromebooks this
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size
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it's the fact that with a smaller screen
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you can kind of dial in the sweet spot
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if you get it just right and it looks
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okay it's workable it's fine
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uh you know that that's not to say it's
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it's a great screen
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but there's an option if you go up to
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like a 230 dollar version of this like
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target has it i believe that actually
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has the touchscreen so if you get the
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touch version of this
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it's still a 1366 by 768 display
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but it is an ips screen so you're going
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to get much better colors
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much better viewing angles i don't know
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that you're going to get much more
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brightness out of it however so two
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other things i want to talk about with
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this one again this is a very very
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affordable chromebook basically if it
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turns on and gets you on the internet
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it's doing its job
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but i was really surprised with how
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rigid the thing feels so watch i'm gonna
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wrench
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on this thing really good like i mean
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that's
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impressive for 170 chromebook uh and
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even once i open it up
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and flip it around this way and really
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kind of give it a wrench
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you can see some give there but uh and
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i'm not calling anybody out here
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it's no worse than the samsung galaxy
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chromebook was and that's a 700
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chromebook so you know it's it's
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impressive to see them put something
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together that's that's this good because
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obviously they had to cut
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tons of corners to get under 200 for any
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chromebook
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and the other part i want to talk about
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is performance
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it shouldn't be any surprise to you that
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this isn't going to be the fastest
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performing chromebook on the market
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it's a mediatek powered so 8183 mt-8183
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same thing that's in the lenovo
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chromebook duet the benefit you're going
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to get here over the duet
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is just pixels when you're talking about
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low-end processors
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they're going to benefit more than a
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high-end processor when you cut the
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number of pixels down on the screen so
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the duet and other devices like it are
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a 16 by 10 so 1920 by 1200 i think it's
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the resolution on those
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that's a lot of pixels to be pushing
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around for a low end processor 1366 by
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768 cuts those
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down quite a bit you're getting 600 or
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so pixels off this way and
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a few hundred pixels off the bottom that
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makes processing
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every one of those pixels a lot easier
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and so it to me
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this chromebook feels a lot faster than
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the duet
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even though they're the exact same
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processor and this particular one comes
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with 64 gigs of storage as well so
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you're getting four gigs of ram 64 gigs
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of internal storage
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there are other ones out there with four
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gigs and 32 gigs of internal storage
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and that's pretty much the only two
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variants you're going to see of this
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particular device but all in all that's
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it you know
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again this is a an affordable chromebook
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that has a really cool look to it
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that's that's relatively thin and light
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it feels good in the hand
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it's going to look really good on a
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table or coming out of a bag and if
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you're looking for something to just
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kind of have around the house
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to get some bills paid to jump on
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facebook to do some banking
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you know that kind of stuff web-based
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task that's going to do great it's
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actually going to do great with quite a
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few android apps as well
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but again you gotta remember you don't
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have a touch screen so if the android
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app isn't optimized for keyboard and
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trackpad
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you're gonna run into some issues
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getting around those apps so i i
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wouldn't buy this as an android
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first kind of device the duet's gonna do
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that a whole lot better
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but in general i mean i'm kind of
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impressed with this for the price point
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i'm excited now that we're giving it
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away because i think it's going to
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make a nice addition for someone that
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again is looking for something to use on
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the couch
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or for remote learning i don't know that
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i would recommend this for remote work
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but one other thing i will say it's hard
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to show this or
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show it to you on camera necessarily but
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the speakers are actually
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kind of surprisingly good they're not
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crazy loud
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but especially for spoken voice and
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stuff like that the speakers sound
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really good
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so you know if you're taking some calls
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again kids are in google meet or zoom
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classes or something like that it's
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going to do a really good job with that
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too and
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again for sub 200 price tag it could
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make a nice little workhorse edition
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around the house but guys that's it for
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