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In this video I review the LG Chromebase. The end abruptly cuts out and I'm not sure why. I was just made aware of this...oh well. Must have been a glitch in the upload!
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hey folks robbie payne with chroma box
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coming at you today with a review
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of the lg chromebase
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now those of you who uh are subscribed
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to the channel
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you've seen the unboxing of the
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chromebase quite a few weeks ago and
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actually i'm at the point where i've got
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to get this guy sent back immediately
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and the reason i've kind of put this one
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off is because my usage of this device
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has been a little bit hit and miss it's
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at home for me
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it's not at the office where i work so
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we've honestly used it as a home
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computing device
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and i'll say this off the bat it's
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caused me to actually reconsider whether
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or not i was going to return it and
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think about actually just buying it and
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keeping it for the house
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and we'll get into why that is here in
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just a few minutes
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i want to go over the specs of it uh
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this is a little bit more of a difficult
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thing to video um because of the nature
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of the product so i'm going to try to
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spin the guy around here and show you
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some ports and stuff first off you get a
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22 inch
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hd ips screen fantastic looking colors
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are really good viewing angles from top
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bottom left and right look fantastic
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it never really loses much of its color
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or anything at all from any angle so
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it's beautiful for viewing media on
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everything looks nice and crisp and if
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you watch my review of the chromebook 2
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from samsung
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samsung crams a 1080p screen onto that
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chromebook but it's at 13.3 inches which
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causes the scale to be a little weird
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text is kind of small all your icons are
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kind of small 1080p stretched across 22
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inches is perfect it's it's absolutely
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gorgeous
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everything renders really beautifully
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things just look really awesome and so
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and the screen is quite bright you can
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kind of tell in the review everything
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looks dark around the screen
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i assure you it actually isn't dark
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however the screen is putting off a lot
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of light so uh it does it does well in
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those environments
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along with the device at that 350 price
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point you get a front-facing camera
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which does pretty good i have a decently
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dark room in here it's not the brightest
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thing in the world and it did it did
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quite well
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i can actually show that to you real
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quick
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and you can see like i said there's the
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the camera guitar on the wall that kind
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of stuff like i said that's this is a
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decently dimly lit room it's a little
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grainy 720p cameras tend to be that way
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but it will do you just fine in a chat
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situation it also has built-in speakers
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and again the entire chrome everything
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is built right into the monitor so it's
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just one piece here
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um
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the
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inbuilt speakers are
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so so they're like laptop speakers they
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didn't really do a very good job with
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that but again 350 dollars let's be
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careful what we're asking for here
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um alongside the front here we also have
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just a kind of really standard cheap
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laser mouse but
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nothing fancy here two buttons and a
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scroll wheel uh it did its job i prefer
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trackpad especially with chrome os and
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the gestures but it does the job just
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fine uh and the keyboard is actually
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really quiet really good actions on the
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keys i wish they were wireless but again
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we come back to that price point uh
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makes a difference here
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i'm gonna attempt to spin this guy
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around on the desk here and you'll see
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where we start getting into some of this
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wire clutter and well that's just the
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the nature of having a uh a wired
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desktop style device right
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around the back you can kind of see um
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the things designed well so uh in use
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cases like hotel lobbies or uh in a
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business area or something like that the
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thing just looks nice it looks really
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pretty it has a clasp back here to put
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those cords into i never bother with
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that it's sitting on my desk we have the
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hdmi uh input which is very interesting
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because this as i mentioned in the
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unboxing can act just as a monitor so
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you could have your windows uh
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pc hooked into it i did that for a
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little bit and again i haven't used my
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pc it's sitting down there collecting
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dust uh it's not turned on but if i were
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going to keep this that's something i
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would have on tap you can hit the chrome
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button on the front uh it actually flips
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the input and it'll just bring up your
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windows pc and so this could be a 350
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dollar monitor plus chrome os um so that
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could be a cool thing we've got a few
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usbs here i believe there's some on the
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side yeah there's one more over here
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and from the looks of it all of them
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yeah all of them look like usb 2.0 so if
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you're looking for a 3.0 solution here
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i think you might be out of luck uh we
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actually have an ethernet port here
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again which makes this nice for lobbies
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hotel rooms that can stuff hard wiring
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as possible and then your power jack
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along the side you have your earphone
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jack i have that hooked into my
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my desktop speakers here little sony
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speakers
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and so that's about it as far as from a
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hardware perspective
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i wanted to comment more on usage
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because internally guys this is the same
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thing that we see in every chromebook
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almost that's out right now it's it's
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the haswell class uh celeron processor
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2995u it is two gigs of ram it's
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16 gigs internal memory i've seen some
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stuff online where people cracked open
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and changed those things
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but it's not easy um and so i would not
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recommend that hopefully they'll come
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out with one that at least gives a slot
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to upgrade this stuff or
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some different options or something like
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that one other thing i found kind of
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cool is the buttons up here on the front
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so if we go to menu these are actually
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just little capacitive buttons across
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the front here so no clicking none of
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that stuff which is kind of nice that's
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a nice touch and like i said before if
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you hit the chrome button i don't have
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anything hooked into it right now it
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would flip over to whatever you have
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coming in on that hdmi so even if you
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have a television or something like that
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you could have something else anything
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hdmi coming into that and then you hit
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that back and you're right back into
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your chrome desktop it's a nice touch
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i think it's a great gap device for some
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people that are looking for a really
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nice monitor because it is that it's a
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nice monitor with a webcam built in
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and speakers good or bad and you know a
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couple peripherals for 350 bucks i mean
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you're going to spend 150 to 200
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uh on a nice monitor like this i i just
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got a really good deal for about a
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hundred and i think it was 130 140
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on a 23 inch 1080p display but it was on
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sale on a big cut sale and it was going
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to the sale was going to go away and it
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was going to go back up to 200
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and so if 200 bucks is kind of going
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right to 230 240 for monitor like this
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for 100 bucks more you're getting some
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accessories and you're getting a
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desktop chrome os environment so you
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don't always have to jump into windows
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for our family we all use chromebooks
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anyway it's been a really nice device to
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have sitting here whether we need to
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print some things up i've had to design
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a few things
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look at some photos online i sat with my
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daughter the other night she's just
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discovered the uh anagraph analgraph 3d
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you know the red blue 3d glasses and so
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we looked up a bunch of 3d pictures and
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saw on this big nice sharp display they
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looked really awesome
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i worked from home a couple days on this
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device
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so having this at the desktop and not
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having to hook anything else in it's
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just there and ready
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there's been a couple times where i've
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just needed to look up something really
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quickly instead of going to my bag and
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pulling my chromebook out opening up and
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granted it's open ready to go
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my phone wasn't close i just plop down
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wiggle the mouse boom we're ready to go
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and i'm and i'm jumping online so it
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really has given me a couple second
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pauses of thinking you know i kind of
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want to keep this thing here um but
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honestly again we have three chromebooks
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in the house already and then i'm
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constantly rotating ones out for uh
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review units so it seemed like a little
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overkill for us just because of that
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particular dynamic in our family but
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overall
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i highly recommend the lg chromebase
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if you're looking for things for
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business where these things are just
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setting in a classroom scenario in a
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computer lab in a business office in a
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hotel
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out front in the hotel heck in a hotel
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room i mean
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that the limitlessness of this device
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is pretty astronomical i
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i've just been really impressed by it
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and again it runs