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Lenovo's booth today here at CES 2020 I
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spent quite a bit of my time there with
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their new Chrome OS tablet
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the Lenovo Chromebook duet and I came
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away just super excited about the idea
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of Chrome OS on tablets again so let's
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go over it and I can tell you why we'll
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get to all the specs and all that kind
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of stuff here in just a second but the
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main pieces of this that Lenovo has
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absolutely nailed are all the pieces
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that make tablets worth using in the
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first place and if you've been around
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our channel for any amount of time or
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you've been over at Chrome on box comm
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you know that I don't think all tablets
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are actually worthwhile like I don't
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like big tablets and tiny tablets have
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kind of been supplanted by phones so for
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me tablet needs to be somewhere in the
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10 inch range it needs to be easy to use
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with one hand and there need to be
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things on it that are actually worth
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using as a tablet and most of my use
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cases for tablets have just kind of gone
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out the window as Chromebooks have
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gotten lighter and thinner so honestly
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I've learned to just operate without a
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tablet for most things and I use a phone
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and a Chromebook but this tablet is a
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little bit different and most of that is
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because it's of a size that makes a lot
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of sense for multiple things and it's
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weight is completely in control whereas
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things like the pixel slate for instance
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we're just too heavy maybe too rounded
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and odd to hold in one hand and use in
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that way this device comes off as
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something that I could hold it feels
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like for like an hour without having to
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deal with any you know hand cramping or
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feeling awkward reading a book with it
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reading magazines watching content that
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kind of stuff that you want to do on a
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tablet this thing is going to really
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excel at it comes in just under a pound
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and in a 10.1 inch form factor it was
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just a delight to pick up and use I
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really liked browsing through websites
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on it reading news I pulled up a book
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and did a couple things with it
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everything I did on it every time I
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picked it up I was just absolutely
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pleased with the way it felt in my hand
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and to be honest when we heard that
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there was going to be a 10-inch
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Chromebook tablet at CES I just kind of
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tempered my expectations expected
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something cheap or flimsy or something
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aimed at the education market and this
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it's put together exceptionally well the
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display is bright and vibrant at 400
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nits it's a full HD panel but it's 16 by
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10 so it's actually 1920 by 1200 I
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believe it's the the resolution on it
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powered by MediaTek snooze chip the P 60
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T it just has a lot of good stuff going
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and on top of that the price on it is
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kind of bonkers it's $279 and it comes
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with the first-party keyboard that pops
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in viet pogo pins and then it's also got
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a back that magnetically attaches with a
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kickstand so you get the entire package
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you get the Chromebook feel you know you
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can use it on your lap or on a table and
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you know orientation or you can pop it
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out of all that stuff and have this nice
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light functional tablet and I just can't
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say that of any other Chrome OS device
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at this point the pixel slate is nice
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and it does a lot of cool things but
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it's too big for a tablet it's too heavy
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this solves all of that and the mediatek
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processor inside is fast enough and it's
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going to be really good at running armed
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applications so all your Android apps
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are gonna run really well on it pop it
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into the keyboard stand and you have a
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fully functional desktop the USB C port
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on the edge is going to give you
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extensions to you know extra monitors
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and stuff like that so I mean this is
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going to be a productive little tablet
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for a lot of people but it's also going
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to be a fun tablet to use as an actual
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tablet and that's just not something
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I've been able to say yet have any
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Chrome OS tablet because the ones that
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have been small enough have been kind of
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cheap and clunky feeling and the
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processor in them was too slow to really
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enjoy so this solves it from a processor
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standpoint it solves it from a price
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standpoint I mean $280 for the keyboard
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and the tablet itself and honestly from
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an aesthetic standpoint the thing looks
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great it feels great to use and I'm just
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as you can probably tell super-excited
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that there's finally a Chrome OS tablet
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coming it's coming out in May that it's
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gonna be so easy to recommend for people
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to pick up for $280 yes go pick this
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thing up it'll have 4 gigs of RAM 128
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gigs of internal storage so plenty of
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space to store all your stuff and again
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it's just an easy recommend and we're so
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excited that there's finally a tablet
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that is going to be worthy of saying hey
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you want a tablet that runs Chrome OS
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and Android apps and all that stuff
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check this one out because it's
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actually a good contender but guys
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that's been it for this one as we get
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more about this tablet and hopefully we
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get a review unit pretty soon we'll
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definitely come back with more and we'll
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have a review of it when it comes out
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later in the year but for now that's it
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