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so we are here at the fall uh Chromebook
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Showcase Event that Google put on uh and
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the timing of this is a little strange
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because there's a week long embargo so
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as you're seeing this video uh we'll
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actually have our unboxing videos out of
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the new hardware that was shown off here
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but we wanted to make these videos to uh
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basically to just kind of give you a
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Hands-On like real time reaction to two
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new Chromebooks that were announced that
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are uh both pretty unique and uh pretty
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cool and pretty exciting and so uh for
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this video we want to talk a little bit
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more about the brand new Lenovo
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in all right so this is the new Lenovo
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Chromebook duet 11in technically is in
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the title uh but it's kind of the
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spiritual successor to the original
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Lenovo Chromebook duet now we had the
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three and the five that came after and
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this one honestly feels a lot more like
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the duet 3 uh than anything but uh
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there's some nice additions here across
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the board including a much faster
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processor uh this keyboard that feels a
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lot like the doit 3s I mean the action
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here is actually really nice um I don't
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think yeah there's no back lighting here
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on the keyboard but yeah the the
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keyboard itself feels really good we
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don't have a trackpad wiggling all
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around which is nice um you know it
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feels like a keyboard cover um but it is
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Spill resistant this time around so if
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you were to tip your coffee over on it
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or something uh you can handle that
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without uh completely flaking out but
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let's look around the outside real quick
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um you're going to notice obviously a
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pin here uh there's a spot in the casing
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on the outside that kind of almost looks
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like it was there to like pinch the pin
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uh not the case I think it's just there
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to add a little extra support it's
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magnetic drops in there this is the
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Lenovo USI uh 2.0 pin uh it does not
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come with it so you'd have to purchase
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this I want to say it's like I don't
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want to hang myself on that I'm not sure
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but I'm pretty sure it's under 100 bucks
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I want to say like 70 80 bucks but I
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could be wrong on that off the top of my
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head um but obviously the back just like
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every other duet comes right off so
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let's go a and take the keyboard off so
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we can kind of see this device and if
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you've you know seen a duet in the last
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couple iterations this should all look
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very familiar to you you got pretty big
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speaker grills here uh we're not in a
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spot to this is all in demo mode so
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software wise I'm not going to really
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mess with anything but uh headphone
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microphone Jack USB type-c there's a USB
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type-c up top too we'll get to that here
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in just a second volume rocker you do
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have a privacy shade here for the camera
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which is nice I'm probably blowing the
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screen out so see if I can crank that
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down um so you can see that privacy
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shutter um it's a manual one so it's not
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like a software button it actually
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covers it up uh then your speaker grills
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and your magnetic stuff down at the
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bottom so another thing with the back
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casing here that's pretty interesting if
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I can get the thing picked
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up you can see it's a diagonal cut here
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on the hinge this breaks my brain I this
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seems like it should wobble which tells
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me I'm not good at geomet
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um it does not wobble obviously uh but
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what this allows for is a much wider
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base on one side which allows you to do
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that with it um so if you wanted a
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vertical second screen you're going to
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hook it up to a monitor or something or
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you're showing off something I don't
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know there's a handful of use cases
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where this would be cool and that's
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where that other USB type-c comes in so
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if you're using this say at a desktop
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setup next to your big monitor you could
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run your USB type-c out uh it has it
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supports this chip I know at least the
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it's the compano um 838 inside here uh
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supports up to uh two 4K displays uh 4K
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60 so it will be able to push I think
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most monitors um you got the the the
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camera module there on the back it's
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actually an 8 megapixel camera 5
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megapixel on the front um we'll
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obviously be testing that out to see how
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well that goes but you know if you've
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handled a duet before this just feels
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like a new refined version kind of a
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rubberized texture on the outside it's
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compact it's going to go where you
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needed to go it's got an ated processor
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again compano 838 I'm super hopeful that
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that adds some uh additional performance
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but until we get our hands on the you
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know our our full review units um I'm
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going to hold off any comments about
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that but it's an exciting new Chromebook
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from Lenovo uh we're excited to see it
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