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Lenovo Chromebook 3 Review: $169 And Worth It
Jul 1, 2020
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When you think about Chromebooks under $250, most devices in that price range are either on their way out the updates door or they are simply just garbage. I mean honestly, we've reviewed $350 Apollo Lake Chromebooks that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. (HP, I'm looking at you.) So, when I unboxed the $169 Lenovo Chromebook 3, my expectations were well-tempered, to say the least. Man, was I surprised. After using the Lenovo Chromebook 3 as my daily driver for a little over a week, I'm excited to bring you this review and share my thoughts on the first sub-$200 Chromebook I'd gladly recommend.
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hey what is up guys as promised today
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I'm bringing you my review of the $169
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Lenovo Chromebook 3 we picked this thing
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up at Walmart a couple of weeks ago and
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I've been using it as my main device
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here at the office and around the house
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so we're gonna decide today can you get
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a Chromebook for $169 and actually be
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worth it before we dive in this video is
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to talk about build quality when you're
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spending $200 or less on a Chromebook or
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any device for that matter you don't
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really expect a whole lot we've seen a
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lot of devices that come out of the box
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with flexible keyboard decks and the
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hinges are bad and they just feel cheap
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the lenovo 3 doesn't it does not feel
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cheap you get it out of the box it looks
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good it has that nice two-tone textured
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lid granted the whole thing is plastic
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but they have a nice texture contour on
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the bottom it feels solid it doesn't
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flex and overall it just feels like a
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way more expensive device I compare it
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kinda to the Acer r11 that just felt
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solid but it's not as chunky as the r11
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either so it doesn't feel like a giant
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brick if you throw in your bag it's 11.6
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inch device and it's relatively light in
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that vein so overall I give this thing a
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really really high rating on the build
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quality it doesn't feel like something
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that you have to worry about breaking
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now it's not milspec rated like a lot of
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nuovo devices and you're not gonna want
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to dump some coffee on the keyboard but
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had a hundred and seventy dollars it
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feels like a device that you can carry
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around with you and you don't have to
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worry about whether or not it's going to
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break my number-one concern when we
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bought this device was the display what
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we've seen with 11 inch devices in the
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200 to $300 price range is usually a TN
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panel at 220 nits which doesn't have to
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be bad but most times it just is the
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viewing angles are usually horrible the
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screens washed out the brightness is
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horrible
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this device I'm not gonna lie it's not
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great this is not a pixel book go it's
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even the Samsung Chromebook plus but it
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is 215 it's it is a TN panel but the
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colors are better than most devices in
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this price range the viewing angles are
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actually good you can actually see the
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screen if you're sitting off angle it's
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plenty bright for a device of this size
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the colors are washed out the color
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gamma it's not great on it but akin when
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you're looking at a hundred and seventy
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dollars you get a lot of passes and this
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screen was honestly a lot better than I
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expected
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and again the screen it's not a touch
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display but this isn't a convertible
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device either so that's not something
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that a lot of consumers expect out of a
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regular clamshell it does fold almost
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flat but this just isn't a device that
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you're gonna want to use in a in that
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type of manner so for the panel that it
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has in it it's not bad and I definitely
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recommend it over a lot of other devices
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in this range alright moving down from
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the display the keyboard on this was
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also better than I expected Lenovo just
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generally does well on their keyboards
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they're not super great like a pixel
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book go but they're not bad either the
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keys are firm they have a good travel to
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them and a good click and it's
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comfortable typing on I found myself
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with it extended to my external monitor
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and working on this keyboard many times
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I forgot that I was working on 170
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dollar device so it's not backlit but
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again it's a cheap device this is a
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budget Chromebook and you don't see a
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lot of devices in the 200 to 250 dollar
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range that have a keyboard that's
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actually comfortable to type on again
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it's not a pixel book or a pixel book go
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but I would be comfortable I have been
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comfortable writing on this device for
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two weeks straight and never once
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thought man this is bad the trackpad
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it's plastic but it has a good click the
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mechanism is good it's not like we've
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seen some where the the trackpad its
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floppy and you have to get in there and
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mess with it it just it feels good when
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you're using it but again it's plastic
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and if you live in an area that any type
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of humidity you're gonna find your your
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finger stick from time to time so I
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found myself wiping it down or or having
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to dry my hands off a couple times
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during the day but overall I found the
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experience to be great and way better
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than I anticipated out of a device at
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this price another thing that's pretty
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impressive for this device is port
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selection a lot of devices in this range
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will give you one of
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this has two USB see two USB a a micro
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SD card slot and of course the
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Kensington lock that only Best Buy uses
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but for a device that this cheap and
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this small that's a lot of port
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selections so you're not going to have
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any problem adding peripherals and
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things of that nature and then with the
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expanded storage of an SD card slot you
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can use it for transferring photos or
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doing whatever so it's pretty impressed
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by that one area that I didn't even
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realize was as good as it is until today
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is the speakers they don't have a lot of
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base but again we talk about this all
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the time laptops don't have great
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speakers they just don't with the
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exception of some devices like the pixel
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bug oh you're just not going to sit and
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listen to music for any length of time
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on a laptop but this has downward firing
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speakers right at the front and they're
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slightly angled up there's no base but
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they are super loud and very clear so if
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you needed a cheap device to have at
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home to use for zoom meetings google
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meet conferences things of that nature
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this device would actually be great it
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has a regular 720p camera so that's not
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going to be awesome but what laptop has
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a great camera but the speakers on it
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are going to make for a really great
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experience if you're having to use video
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conferencing on a regular basis
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so overall ports speakers again out of
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the box way better than I could have
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ever expected out of a device that cost
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less than $200 the reason this device
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caught our eye to begin with is because
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it has a newer gem and I like our
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processor and that's an N for T 20 most
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people aren't familiar with what all
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that stuff means it's a Celeron
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processor now a couple of years ago
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Intel came out with the Apollo Lake
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chipsets which a lot of manufacturers
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are still using and honestly they're not
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great I wouldn't recommend them to even
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a student of elementary school student
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the Gemini Lake R is different
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it puts up really good octane scores and
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it's powerful enough for even the
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moderate user people who have a lot of
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tabs open watching videos things in that
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nature it has four gigs of RAM and 32
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gigs of storage and though those
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combined working in my desktop for two
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weeks I rarely ever had an instance
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where I thought man the sink struggling
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had to have Linux apps open and media
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playing and a bunch of tabs before I
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realized that it was starting to slow
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down a little bit and I remember sitting
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at the desk one day and looking at Robby
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and thinking man my pixel book go is
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acting weird today and then I looked
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down and realized I wasn't on the pixel
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but go I was on this so if you're
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worried about a cheap Chromebook not
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having enough power I can tell you this
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device has enough for the average user
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and when I say the average user I mean
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the fat middle people that are doing
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social media schoolwork at home
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videoconferencing for work if you're
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doing spreadsheets finances things like
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that this device is not going to have a
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problem with it it'll run Android apps
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just fine there's not a lot that your
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average consumer is not going to be able
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to do with this so if you just want
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something that's inexpensive but will do
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the job and do it well this device is
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definitely a good recommend it's not
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just like oh it's cheap so let's buy it
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it's cheap and it's actually really good
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and as I mentioned we picked this one up
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at Walmart and it seems for now at least
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to be an exclusive to that store lenovo
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has a 64 gig model that retails for $229
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this one is 169 and that's not a sale
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price that is the price that they have
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it at Walmart it's 32 gigs of storage
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you can pick it up online or in-store
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but if you're wondering if this device
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will work for you I think the answer is
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yes and I definitely do recommend it but
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