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hey guys Robbie Payne with crow and
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boxed and today we're gonna be taking a
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look a quick look an initial look at the
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Lenovo yoga Chromebook see 6:30
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I hate Chromebook names to be honest
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with you but this device was announced
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back at IFA in Berlin a few months ago
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it is a 15.6 inch yoga device and they
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haven't put any other branding on it
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which is kind of cool we're seeing the
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same thing from Dell and their Inspiron
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line but this thing just arrived in
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today we have a stack of Chromebooks and
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reviews we're trying to get out the door
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so we thought hey let's go old-school
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with this one and do just a first
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impressions right out of the box kind of
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like we used to back in the old days and
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today so right out of the box there is
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nothing really flashy in the box itself
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we got a kind of normal charger brick
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the brick is relatively small it's not a
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huge one like we see sometimes and it's
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USBC obviously that's not surprising at
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all the outside of the device we have
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just this really nice brushed aluminum I
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think they call it like midnight black
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or something it I can already tell it's
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picking up fingerprints real quickly but
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overall it looks really really good and
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honestly for a 15.6 inch device not
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crazy heavy so it doesn't feel like it
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would just weigh your backpack down a
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ton I want to say this one's in the four
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pound range I'm not sure rough top of my
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head but we have the convertible hinges
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if you ever want to use a 15 inch tablet
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which I don't think anybody does but you
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can get the tent mode and all the fun
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yoga stuff out of it we do you have fan
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ports because you're talking the core i5
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u series processor here so you get a lot
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of power into the hood but it requires
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some fans eight gigs of ram in this 128
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gigs of internal storage if that sounds
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we're talking pixel book type stats here
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but it's a u series processor so
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probably even better performance than we
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saw in the pixel book but as we open
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we are met with on this one a full HD
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display so this is the device that will
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have the first 4k display on a
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Chromebook and overall the screen looks
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good on this one Full HD it's decently
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bright colors look good viewing angles
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look really good on it and so not a
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whole lot to complain about
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additionally the the bezels on each side
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are actually really really slim and the
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one across the top is not too bad
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it's got a pretty sizable big bezel on
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the bottom that's just kind of the way
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it is with convertibles they gotta have
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room to put those hinges and all that
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kind of stuff in there and so we're
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never going to see a convertible with
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the screen coming all the way down to
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the bottom a really nice feeling
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trackpad with a really good click and
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travel keys feel good and nice and
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there isn't any backlighting on these
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keys though and Lenovo said there was
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going to be Best Buy I didn't say there
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was going to be so there's some
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confusion there and I'm not exactly sure
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if this thing's gonna end up shipping
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with back leg keys or not so your
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mileage may vary there but overall the
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device feels really really good and
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looks good too so a lot of times 15-inch
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devices for some reason tend to have
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this super budget II look to them and
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don't feel sleek or well put together
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and this one feels really good really
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substantial no give no creak so yeah
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well done there unsurprisingly given the
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internals of this device it moves along
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insanely fast so far especially only
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pushing at 1080p screen everything is as
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quick as you could want it to be ran and
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real quick off camera and we're talking
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like 34,000 here so just off the charts
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with with speed and I don't think that
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shouldn't be surprising to anyone in 8th
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gen Core i5 processor with 8 gigs of RAM
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on on Chrome OS is a no issue of course
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it runs Android apps out of the box
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yeah it'll have full Linux support as
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well along the sides you get a nice bevy
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of ports so USB see on either side a USB
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a on the one side your volume rocker
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power micro SD card headphone microphone
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jack we talk about this stuff all the
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time but I really really like that port
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selection and in general it's just nice
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because it gives it some flexibility as
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far as where are you charged and how you
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hook in a display and if you don't have
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a dongle with you and you need something
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to an old-school USB a port you've got
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that there as well so I mean overall I'm
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just I'm kind of impressed with this
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thing I do wish it had a backlit
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keyboard because this one commands a
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decently premium price tag and so I
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think not having a backlit keyboard is a
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little bit of a fail there but there
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aren't too many 15-inch Chromebooks
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around a sir really kind of has the
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market on those and so lenovo showing up
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with something that in my opinion does
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look better it looks way more premium
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way more slick and you're getting some
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high-end options whereas acer doesn't
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really offer much over a penny and 4200
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and their device and then you have the
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ability a sir does this to but you have
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the ability to do some cool stuff like
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flip it into tenth mode if you're on an
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no one's gonna use this thing as a
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tablet like this I mean I don't even
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know how you would work this out but
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convertibles give you the unique ability
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to do stuff like this and put it in
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presentation mode if you're wanting to
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show a client something or you want to
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show movies to someone else and then
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like I said if you're on a plane and you
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need to have a compact space to where
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you can watch something or see something
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on the screen you can have that with a
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convertible so this does that pretty
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well and again does it all looking
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pretty good and I'm gonna tell you this
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thing is collecting fingerprints really
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really quickly but overall so far so
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good I think this is a decent looking
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device stay tuned for the review along
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with the Dell the HP that pixel slate
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and maybe a new pixel book at some point
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in the future you know this one's right
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in the mix with all those as having you
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know premium build quality really really
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high-end internals a good screen and all
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that kind of stuff so keep it locked as
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a channel will obviously be doing a
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review of this in the coming weeks as we
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spend a little bit of time with it and
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get to know it a little bit better than
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